What Life Was Like Under Nazi Occupation

Get your exclusive NordVPN deal here: It s riskfree with Nord s 30day moneyback guarantee On September 1, 1939, nearly seven years after Hitler became chancellor, Germany invaded Poland. Over the next six years, Nazis invaded, occupied, and brutalized a considerable amount of Europe and Northern Africa. The German brand of militaryindustrial fascism imposed radical changes in the daily life of all those who came under its reign, though these changes were often specific to context. For instance, life in occupied France was very different from life in Poland under German occupation, which was different than the experiences of Norway or the Balkans. There were, however, some consistencies: food shortages, rape committed by German soldiers, the persecution of Jews, shipping Jews who weren t killed on the stop to concentration camps, and random acts of senseless violence. , WWII , EuropeanHistory, WeirdHistory