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After the enabling acts had taken place and the president had dies, Hitler made sure there was no election for a new one allowing him total control of the country -
Several Jewish- owned department stores were boycotted due to the horrible thing's Hitler said about them. -
New law's were made to strip Jew's or Roma (Gypsy) of their rights. These laws took their right to a German citizenship and prohibited many things such as Marriage or any other type of relationship between Jews and non- Jews -
Jews had waited in a line at a police station to obtain exit visas to avoid Nazis due to them unleashing a wave of humiliation, terror, and confiscation in Austria. Leading to many Austrian Jews attempting to leave the country. However some weren't able to pay the fine that was required to leave the country. -
Nazis had orchestrated anti- Jewish violence across Germany. Within 48 hours 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. -
Government policies in the 1930s made it difficult for Jews seeking refuge to settle in the United States. In 1939 the passenger ship St. Louis departed from Germany to Cuba carrying 937 passengers, most of them being Jews. However the Cuban government had revoked their landing certificates. After the U.S. government had denied permission to the passengers to enter, the ship had to return to Europe where roughly 250 of the refugees would later be killed in the holocaust. -
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. These units carried out mass murders of Jews, Roma, and Communist government officials. -
Eventually, Danish rescuers ferried 7,220 Jews to safety across the narrow strait to neutral Sweden. As a result of the rescuers, more than 90 percent of the Jews in Demark escaped deportation to Nazi concentration camps.