Prior to Hitler’s occupation, nearly 120,000 Jews inhabited the areas that would become the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; by 1945, all but a handful had either escaped or been deported and murdered by the Nazis. This pioneering study gives a definitive account of the Holocaust as it was carried out in the region, detailing the German and Czech policies, including previously overlooked measures such as small-town ghettoization and forced labor, that shaped Jewish life. Drawing on extensive new evidence, Wolf Gruner demonstrates how the persecution of the Jews as well as their reactions and resistance efforts were the result of complex actions by German authorities in Prague and Berlin as well as the Czech government and local authorities.

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Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Czechoslovak Republic and its Minorities
Chapter 2. Annexation: Violence, Flight and Emigration Ban
Chapter 3. German Expulsion and Czech Persecution
Chapter 4. The War and Greater German Deportation Plans
Chapter 5. Reorientation, Ghettoization and Protest
Chapter 6. Local versus Central Persecutory Initiatives
Chapter 7. Isolation, Forced Labour and Opposition
Chapter 8. Repression, Deportation and Resistance
Chapter 9. Transports, Theft, Forced Labour and Flight
Chapter 10. Those Left Behind and the End of the War

Conclusion

Appendix: Tables

Bibliography
Index