Were there ghettos in Nazi Germany?

Question

... Or were they JUST in Poland etc..

Answer 1

No, in Germany there were no ghettos (WW2) only in Poland.

Answer 2

Confining Jews in ghettos was not Hitler's brainchild. For centuries, Jews had faced persecution, and were often forced to live in designated areas called ghettos . The Nazis' ghettos differed, however, in that they were a preliminary step in the annihilation of the Jews, rather than a method to just isolate them from the rest of society. As the war against the Jews progressed, the ghettos became transition areas, used as collection points for deportation to death camps and concentration camps . Hitler incorporated the western part of Poland into Germany according to race doctrine. He intended that Poles were to become the slaves of Germany and that the two million Jews therein were to be concentrated in ghettos in Poland's larger cities. Later this would simplify transport to the death camps. Nazi occupation authorities officially told the story that Jews were natural carriers of all types of diseases, especially typhus, and that it was necessary to isolate Jews from the Polish community. Jewish neighborhoods thus were transformed into prisons. The five major ghettos were located in Warsaw , Lódz, Kraków, Lublin, and Lvov. In total, the Nazis established 356 ghettos in Poland, the Soviet Union, the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary between 1939 and 1945. There was no uniformity to these ghettos. The ghettos in small towns were generally not sealed off, which was often a temporary measure used until the residents could be sent to bigger ghettos

Answer 3

To the best of my knowledge, the ghettos created by Nazi Germany were in occupied countries, not Germany itself. Occupied Poland would be top on that list, but others existed. The Budapest ghetto in Hungary was created late in the war:

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059

Answer 4

Ghettos were in OCCUPIED Poland not in Poland. In 1939 Poland were divided by Nazis into three parts: General Gubern ( Warsaw, Krakow), Wartheland ( Poznan, Lodz) and Westpreussen. Claiming that ghettos were in Poland is serious mistake because Poland weren't independent country during the war.

Answer 5

I'm not sure what you mean with Ghettos. If you just mean a designated area where the jews had to stick to, then I believe they were only in Poland prior to the Holocaust.

If you mean concentration camps during the holocaust, then they were from Holland to Germany to Austria to Greece.

If you mean jewish ghettos in general, so not in relation to Nazi Germany, then we are talking dozens of countries and dozens of centuries.

Answer 6

No all of the Ghettos were in poland where the concentration camps were.

Answer 7

yes there were ghettos in Nazi Germany too

Answer 8

There were none in Germany itself but most of the eastern European countries like Poland and Hungary had them. Biggest one was in Warsaw.

Answer 9

Usually where the Jewish people used to live were the ghettos.

Answer 10

Had there been, they would not have remained populated for very long, eh ? Very efficient, those "Aryans".