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The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia, Czech initiatives, German policies, Jewish responses, Wolf Gruner ; translated from the German by Alex Skinner

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The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia

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Wolf Gruner ; translated from the German by Alex Skinner

War and genocide, volume 28

Czech initiatives, German policies, Jewish responses

Prior to Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia, nearly 120,000 Jews inhabited the regions that would become the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; by 1945, all but a handful had either escaped or been murdered by the Nazis. This pioneering study gives a definitive account of the Holocaust as it was carried out in the German successor state to Czechoslovakia, exploring in depth the policies that shaped Jewish life there, from forced labor to concentration camp deportations. Drawing on extensive new evidence, Wolf Gruner demonstrates how the Holocaust's implementation was the complex result of direct coordination by Berlin as well as specific national and local authorities. --, Provided by publisher

The Czechoslovak Republic and its minorities -- Annexation: violence, flight and emigration ban -- German expulsion and Czech persecution -- The war and greater German deportation plans -- Reorientation, ghettoization and protest -- Local versus central persecutory initiatives -- Isolation, forced labour and opposition -- Repression, deportation and resistance -- Transports, theft, forced labour and flight -- Those left behind and the end of the war