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Hitler was appointed chancellor then all the social parties passed the enabling act which gave Hitler power to rule. -
Any person that had any Jewish ancestry from their grandparents would be defined as a Jew. -
Hitler tried to get people to stop buying from Jewish stores. When it didn't work, he sent some people to destroy and vandalize Jewish businesses. -
Jews in Vienna wait in line at a police station to obtain exit visas. Following the incorporation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938, and the unleashing of a wave of humiliation, terror, and confiscation, many Austrian Jews attempted to leave the country and America saved them as they boarded the St. louis. -
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 in June
1941.