 The British failure to capture the Dodecanese sealed the fate of Jews living there.Although Italy had passed the anti-Jewish law of the Manifesto of Race in 1938, Jews living on the Dodecanese islands (and Italian-occupied Greece) experienced much less antisemitism than in the German and Bulgarian occupied zones of Greece, where harsher and harsher policies were implemented, culminating in March 1943 with deportations to the death camps in occupied Poland.The Italian surrender, the German takeover and the failure of the Allied offensive meant that the haven disappeared.