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Nazis had concentrated on silencing their political opponents, communist, liberals, and anyone else who spoke out against the government. -
Hitler took power in Germany, he ordered all non-Aryans to be removed from government jobs. -
The Nuremberg laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property. Jews had to wear a bright yellow star of David attached to their clothing. -
Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, business, and synagogues across Germany and Austria. -
German ocean liner passed Miami in 1939. Although 740 of the liner's 943 passengers had U.S. immigration papers, the Coast Guard followed ship to prevent anyone from disembarking in America. -
A policy of genocide, the deliberate and systematic murder of an entire population. People who were targeted by Germans were communists, socialism, liberals, Gypsies, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witness. Concentration camps were set up to imprison political opponents and protestors. -
Chelmno began operating in 1941, each camp had serval huge gas chambers in which as 12,00 0 people could be killed each day. Auschwitz, the largest camp, had to parade by serval SS doctors. -
They were led into gas chambers and were told to undress for a shower. They were poisoned with cyanide gas.