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The jews lost their citizenship in Germany and weren't allowed to do a lot of things, like go into stores to buy food. -
When the synagogue burned down Hitler claimed that communists were the last ones seen at the scene. This caused the Nazi's to unleash a rain of terror on all the jews or Jewish owned businesses. -
As the St. louis ship came in for trading goods with Germany 937 passengers got on the ship trying to escape Germany, mostly jews. Cuba had revoked their landing certificate, and the U.S. didn't let them enter they were sent back to Germany where over 250 of the passengers would be killed in the holocaust. -
The Ghetto was a small closed off space for Jewish people to live, they had to wait in long cramped lines for very little to no food, sanitation clothing and shelter, and it held over 300,000 jews. -
7220 jews were rescued by the Danish and ferried away to Sweden to finally escape Germany. over 90% of Jews were able to escape concentration camps because of this. -
They buried milk cans with a record of Nazi crimes for future generations to see. -
People were evacuated from their homes and taken to concentration camps where they were tortured, starved, labored, and even murdered. SS guards were ordered to kill any prisoners who couldn't walk or work in anyway. -
war criminals were charged against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and people thinking they were going to commit crimes.