7/5/2023 0 Comments Theresienstadt by Vera SchiffTheresienstadt came under surveillance once the Germans had deported Danish Jews due to the persistence of the King Christian of Denmark. In reality, chances of survival were slim. Created as a ruse, the facility was intentionally for the wealthy Jews of Czechoslovakia and a place for older Jews to retire. Theresienstadt served as a transport camp for Jews to be sent to death camps in the East, a ghetto-labor camp for deported Jews of various European nationalities, and a detention center for Jews awaiting death. Opening in Terezin, Czechosloakia on November 1941, the camp-ghetto hybrid of Theresienstadt was used by the Nazis as a place for propaganda during its three and half years of operation. Theresienstadt served as the place of deception, crimes against humanity, and perhaps the only place of possible rescue. The films from Theresienstadt serve as key examples. Nazi propaganda ranged from posters, to films, exacerbating the already present antisemitism within German society. The Nazi party notoriously used propaganda to gain support for the annihilation of the Jews in Europe.
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