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Government policies in the 1930s made it difficult
for Jews seeking refuge to settle in the United States. -
Adolf Hitler addressed the first session of the German Parliament following his appointment as chancellor.
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The Nazis initiated a boycott of Jewish shops and businesses across Germany.
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the laws issued restricted future German citizenship to those
of “German or kindred blood,” and excluded those
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Jews in Vienna wait in line at a police station to obtain exit visas. Following the incorporation of Austria by Nazi Germany
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the Nazi regime unleashed orchestrated anti-Jewish violence across greater Germany.
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the passenger ship St. Loui seen here before departing Hamburg sailed from Germany to Cuba carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jews.
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Sections of Warsaw lay in ruins following the invasion and conquest of Poland by the German military begun in September 1939 that propelled Europe into World War II.
