How many people could fit inside the warsaw ghetto?

I understand that about 300-400k people were there in it's peak operation in the three and a half square kilometers the ghetto occupied. However would it have been possible to increase the population of the Warsaw ghetto to over a million while maintaining the same area?

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It was possible, but at what cost.
In the destroyed, living in poverty Warszaw people already lived three per room. In the Ghetto it was more but there were places where the rich lived in spacious apartments and lifts were running.
The Ghetto was a maze of dense built, high tenements full of small rooms. By installing bunk beds, by using every possible space including stairwells, courtyards, attics, basements, or maybe even streets the density could have been easily increased.

 

As much as would be put in

 

It's not quite true that they had no concern with the living conditions there.
The Ghetto was working for their war industry, and military production had absolute priority. Increasing the population to the point the production would be disturbed would not be allowed.

For the same reason, and because there were some German sanitary regulations they had to follow, they were interested in prevention of epidemic diseases, so an entire large organisation was created solely for this purpose.

The power of the SS wasn't unlimited. Actually there were German laws even they had to follow.
They wanted to execute Jewish children leaving the Ghetto to buy food - and it couldn't be done, German law forbade punishing minors. They wanted to remove all phones from the Ghetto for security reasons, and they were unsuccessful in this too.

 

100% correct. the nazi dogs didn't care about Jewish life or any the state deemed useless.
IMO we should do the same to them. I get that after ww1 they were broken, hurt, poor, but payback like this is not ok.

 

I don't know if I subscribe to this. the jews weren't humans. laws didn't apply to them... can you back this up with fact/links?

they could kill jews anytime they wanted. like shooting a stray dog that attacked your live stock.

 

For example, from Non-Germans under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe by Diemut Majer:

 

Laws?! Those laws were a smokescreen. Pure window dressing bull.... Laws were put in place on a technicality. Regardless of their written form, and I have read them, those laws were utilized to soften their appearance on the stance of the Jews to foreign powers and to the Judenrat. The SS had overwhelming authority over the ghettos and camps. They could do what they pleased. The ghettos would have been cleared by violence if the SS was not concerned for the psychological toll it took on foot soldiers.

The Nazi regime was full of "laws" as smokescreens to carry out their true vision.

 

It wasn´t a German problem, it was a Jewish problem, I think. All that is sent there must fit.

 

100% right

 

Unfortunately the Jews who lived then disagree:

So two years into the war Jews caught outside the Ghettos were sentenced by the Special Courts, and had the right to appeal to the Governor General (a procedure which took a few months to complete).

And still the execution of a several people was so unusual it "set all Warsaw trembling".

The German security forces were given the right to execute on the spot the Jews caught outside the ghettos at the beginning of 1942. They never were given the right to execute people without any reason, because it "felt good". Although it obviously happened.

 

Well, as we know the world record for the number of people in a VW beetle (20) we just have to ask how many VW beetle's could be crammed into the Ghetto.



Probably more cars than Herr Schickelgrüber actually built.



Of course, there is the space advantage of compacting the cars to be considered as well. The ultimate fate of the jews being irrelevant, anyway.



How many Jews could fit inside a column of smoke?

 

Pardon my tone, but it amazes me that you still believe the Jews had rights during the occupation. And that those laws were legit. Were they put on paper, yes, did some of the German officers follow those rules, yes, but again, it was a smokescreen. The wheels of the Final Solution were already in motion.

In your attempt to prove your point correct, you seem to be neglecting the plight of the Jews by focusing on a ludicrous law that solved nothing. Please understand, I agree that those laws were emplaced and, as you evidenced, eased some concern.

However, they were means to an end for the SS. Pure window dressing to hide the truth of the regime.

 

It was the opposite: the Germans were Jewish problem #1.