The Nazis took fierce reprisals against recalcitrance or resistance. Emblematic of the viciousness were the actions that followed an attempt in May 1942 by a group around a Jew named Herbert Baum to burn down a propaganda exhibition against the Soviet Union in Berlin. The Gestapo caught thirty-three conspirators almost immediately and executed not only those people but another 250 Jewish men, who were rounded up and sent to Sachsenhausen, just outside the city. Another 250 Jewish males then also disappeared into that camp, the families of all 500 men immediately were deported “to the east,”
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