The Holocaust - Alexander von Falkenhausen enacted anti-Jewish measures
Time: May, 1940
Place: Germany
Details: In May 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and France. After Belgium's surrender, the country was ruled by a German military governor, Alexander von Falkenhausen, who enacted anti-Jewish measures against its 90,000 Jews, many of them refugees from Germany or Eastern Europe.
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