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No when hitler came to power in germany in nineteen

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thirty three thousands of jews read the writing on the

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wall in bid al veeder saying to their homeland some

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of these immigrants moved to places like belgium and the

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netherlands where they would be rounded up and shipped off

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to concentration camps Not ten years later thanks belgium and

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the netherlands other german jews decided to move farther away

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much much farther away We're talking like to the other

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side of the planet anywhere in europe was way too

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close to hitler While hitler was thrilled to see jews

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taking his less than subtle hints about their future in

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germany to heart he didn't try to make the immigration

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process easy to ensure even more jews would leave Instead

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the nazis stripped anyone who wanted out from under their

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thumb of property and wealth Only then could they legally

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leave germany and there were other obstacles for german jewish

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immigrants as well In nineteen twenty for the u s

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decided it would only take twenty seven thousand immigrants from

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germany and austria annually But guess what way more people

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than that we're looking to escape hitler in fact by

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nineteen thirty nine There were more than three hundred thousand

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jews waiting to get the immigration a okay from uncle

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sam President franklin delano roosevelt recognized that his country and

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others weren't doing a good job of getting jews out

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of germany So nineteen thirty eight fdr organized a conference

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for more than thirty countries in the hope that everyone

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would sit down and sing kumbaya and up their immigration

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quotas Unfortunately the conference was a failure Anti semitism and

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isolationism were simply too entrenched in many countries Also people

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just couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that the

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nazis were displaying genocidal tendencies It was easier to believe

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that all those stories about the nazis being naughty were

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exaggerated or just untrue Well about nineteen forty one the

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majority of germany's jews had managed to leave the country

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for friendlier climes This still meant that hitler had more

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than one hundred thousand jews within his borders to deal

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with a solution Shove them all into ghettos Ghettoes have

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been around for centuries At this point they were basically

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the real estate where society's dumped the people they wanted

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to isolate and persecute while jews could come and go

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Freely into business with christian populations from the european ghettos

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of old the setup the nazis had going was not

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nearly so nice There was a lot less freedom and

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a whole lot more death due to starvation and disease

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Of course the ghettos were only a temporary answer to

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hitler's Jewish question His permanent response was the systematic eradication 00:02:29.218 --> [endTime] of millions of people Oh boy

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