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After taking power, the Nazis had concentrated on silencing their political opponents- communists, socialists, liberals, and anyone else who spoke out against the government.
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Hitler took power in Germany, and he ordered all "non Aryans" to be removed from government jobs. Which was one of the first moves in a campaign fo racial purity that eventuallyled to the Holocaust.
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The Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property. To make it easier for the Nazis to identify them, Jews had to wear bright yellow star of David attatched to clothing.
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Nazi storm troopers attacked the Jews all across Germany. All of their homes, shops, and belongings destroyed.
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St. Louis, German ocean liner passed Miami. Although 740 of the 943 passangers had US immigration papers,theCoast Guard followed them all the way back to Europe.
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Groups targeted were political opponents, Jews, Gypsies, Freemasons, Jehova's Witnesses, and other Germans who were unfit to be apart of the master race. Concentrationcamps were made for these people, the got worked to death, and most were killed.
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Each camp had several huge gas chambers in which as many as 12,000 would be killed a day. The doctor would save the strong ones for work and gas the weak.
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The final stage was reached at a meeting heldin Wannsee, a lake side suburb near Burlin, Hitlers top officials met and agreed on mas killings by poison gas.
