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Adolf Hitler was announced Chancellor by President Hindenburg hoping he would help Germany out of their political and economic crisis.
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The Enabling Act gave dictatorial powers to Hitler.
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Nazis thought Jews and Gypsies were a threat to the purity of the German race
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Boycott of Jewish businesses was instituted.
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Laws were passed to reduce the number of genetic "inferior" through involuntary sterilization programs.
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Between 1933-1939, half of the Germand Jews and more than two-thirds of Austrian Gyspies fled Nazi persecution.
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Laws were proclaimed at Nuremberg that stripped German Jews of their citizenship.
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Thousands of politians and Jehovah's Witnesses were imprisoned in concentration camps, while thousands of Gyspies were confined in special municipal camps.
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Between 1937-1938 Jews were forced from Germany's economic life, Nazis seized Jewish businesses and properties.
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An economic attack against German and Austrian Jews changed into a physical destruction; Jewish men were arrested, many murdered, and destruction of homes.