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The Nazis banned jazz music because they considered it "corrupt Negro music". [278] The Nazis believed that the existence of jazz in Germany was a Jewish plot to dominate Germany and the non-Jewish German people and destroy German culture. [279]
The Holocaust, however, led to a dramatic, sudden decline in the use of Yiddish, as the extensive Jewish communities, both secular and religious, that used Yiddish in their day-to-day life were largely destroyed. Around five million of those killed – 85 percent of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust – were speakers of Yiddish. [17]
So They Remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Himka, J.-P. (2012). Ukrainian Memories of the Holocaust: The Destruction of Jews as Reflected in Memoirs Collected in 1947. Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne Des Slavistes, 54(3/4), 427–442. Himka, J.-P ...
Himmler considered the Jehovah's Witnesses to be frugal, hard-working, honest and fanatic in their pacifism, and he believed that these traits were extremely desirable for the suppressed nations in the east [61] – despite some 2,500 and 5,000 Jehovah's Witnesses becoming victims of the Holocaust.
During World War II, as the horrors of the Holocaust became known, the Zionist leadership formulated the One Million Plan, a reduction from Ben-Gurion's previous target of two million immigrants. Following the end of the war, many stateless refugees, mainly Holocaust survivors, began migrating to Palestine in small boats in defiance of British ...
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
[87] [89] The soundtrack uses a variety of music genres, including Spaghetti Western and R&B. Prominent in the latter part of the film is David Bowie's theme from the 1982 film Cat People. [90] The soundtrack, the first of Tarantino's not to include dialogue excerpts, was released on August 18, 2009. [91] [92]