In the report below, a Nazi officer describes the evacuation of the Warsaw ghetto in 1943. "The execution of this transfer order
[to move all the Jews in the ghetto to concentration camps] proved to be very difficult, since the managers as well as the Jews resisted in every possible way . . . The conditions discovered there are indescribable. I cannot imagine a greater chaos than in the Ghetto of Warsaw." "SS General JíĽrgen Stroop, 1943 Which statement below is supported by information in the report? Calm prevailed during this transfer operation. The ghetto was a place where the Warsaw Jews lived happily. More than 400,000 people were jammed into the Warsaw ghetto. Some Jews fought against the Nazis rather than be sent to concentration camps.
When the nazi leaders decided to put in practice the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, and to deport and exterminate Jews in death camps, most of the Jewish population in nazi-controlled areas was already confined in ghettos, separated areas in the cities known as Jewish Quartiers. <u>When nazi officers tried to make effective the transfer orders, most Jews in the ghettos tried to resist to move out from there</u>, even tough the living conditions inside the ghettos were deplorable.
