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with the exception of the Socialists and
Communists—passed the “Enabling Act” giving Hitler
the power to rule by emergency decree. -
The Nazis initiated a boycott of Jewish shops and businesses across Germany -
synagogues
were vandalized and burned,
7,500 Jewish businesses were
damaged or destroyed, 96 Jews
were killed, and nearly 30,000
Jewish men were arrested and
sent to concentration camps. -
Before being aloud to leave, Jews had to get an exit visa, plus pay large sums of money in taxes and additional fees.
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The passenger ship St. Louis, seen here
before departing Hamburg, sailed from Germany to
Cuba carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jews. -
German authorities sealed the Warsaw ghetto, severely restricting supplies for the more than 300,000 Jews. -
About a quarter of all Jews who perished in the Holocaust
were shot by SS mobile killing squads and police battalions
following the German invasion of the Soviet Union. -
The majority of Jews who entered the
Nazi killing centers were murdered in gas
chambers.