German Jews now face deportation

19th October 1941: The Holocaust is widened to include German citizens - who now start arriving in the ghettoes established in Poland

German and Jewish police guard at the entrance to the Lodz Ghetto

Anti-semitic laws were long established in Nazi Germany, restricting the lives of Jews in many ways. Ever since Kristallnacht in 1938 the potential for state violence against Jews had been clear for all to see. Many Jews had been sent to concentration camps in Germany, where they suffered …