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Imposing Nazi Racial Policy in Poland 1939-1940 October, 1939 - Hitler instructs doctors to kill physically or mentally "defective" Germans, the first order to murder a group of people based on racist ideology. May 18, 1940 - Germany deports 2,800 Gypsies to the Lublin region. In November, 5,000 Gypsies are sent to the Lodz ghetto. November 15, 1940 - The Warsaw Ghetto is sealed. Historian Emmanuel Ringelblum and colleagues decide to continue in secret their archive of Jewish life and code name it Oneg Shabbat (Sabbath Joy).  |
