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not employ Aryan domestic servants or take part in the arts. On November 9, 1938, 7,500
Jewish businesses were destroyed, 250 synagogues were burned down, and thousands of
Jewish apartments were wrecked. Thousands were thrown into concentration camps. In
January 1939, in a speech to the Reichstag, Hitler proclaimed that if war broke out in
Europe, its Jews would be destroyed.
Figure 8.5. Nazi Marching
What was euphemistically called “The Final Solution” began around 1941. In what
would later be called the Holocaust, six million Jews and perhaps another million deemed
unfit to live would be murdered in Nazi concentration camps. “The most infamous of the
camps…was Auschwitz….When all the gas chambers …were in full operation, it was pos-
sible to kill up to 9,000 people within twenty-four hours.” [120]
WORLD WAR II
The sky was good for flying
Defying the church bells
And every evil iron
Siren and what it tells…
— Louis MacNiece, “Sunlight on the Garden”, 1936