Warsaw Ghetto

From Turtledove

The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto established by Nazi Germany during World War II. The inhabitants of the Ghetto launched an insurgency against the Germans on January 18, 1943. The most significant portion of the rebellion took place from April 19 until May 16, 1943, and ended when the poorly armed and supplied resistance was crushed by the German troops under the direct command of Jürgen Stroop. It was the largest single revolt by the Jews during the Holocaust.

[edit] Warsaw Ghetto in Worldwar

In 1942 the Jews crowded into and imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto were living in conditions of extreme hardship and starvation, deliberately induced by the Nazi occupation authorities which intended to eventually kill all of them. Some of the younger Jews contemplated an uprising, though knowing that it would have no chance of winning and would mainly give them a chance to "die with dignity". When the Race launched its surprise attack on Earth, they systematically destroyed fortifications and anything looking as such all over the planet, which included the wall surrounding the Warsaw Ghetto. The Race's intervention saved the Warsaw Jews, as those elsewhere in East Europe, from certain death. Under the rule of the Race, the former Ghetto remained the main habitation of Jews in Warsaw but they were free to come and go.

The circumstances in which the Warsaw Ghetto wall was breached led, among other things, to the rise of the hitherto unknown Moishe Russie to considerable prominence, first in Poland and later in Palestine.

[edit] Warsaw Ghetto in "The Last Article"

Warsaw Ghetto commandant Jürgen Stroop was transferred to India in 1947. He congratulated Walther Model on his handling of the Qutb Road rebels. Model, who thought Stroop's incompetence brought about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, accepted Stroop's good will without comment.