Abstract
The geographic reach of the Nazi killing machine is demonstrated in
this map. Even as the war turned against the Germans, the regime
continued to persecute and murder Europe’s Jews. The seventeen hundred
Jews from the Greek Island of Rhodes were rounded up at the end of July
1944, and deported all the way to Auschwitz to be murdered. Readers may
also notice that there is no figure listed for Sweden. As a neutral
state, its Jewish community remained untouched. While antisemitism did
lead to discrimination against Jews in Sweden, and policies that made it
difficult for most European Jews seeking refuge to enter Swedish
territory, over 7000 Danish Jews were allowed entry in late 1943. It is
owing to this daring rescue, orchestrated by the Danish resistance, that
the number of Jewish victims from Denmark also remained so low.