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After Hitler took power in germany, he ordered all "non aryans" to be removed from government jobs.
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in 1935, the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their german citizenship, jobs, and property. Jews were forced to wear the star of david, to identify that thgey were jews.
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November 9th through the 10th, 1938, became known as Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass". Nazi Storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany.
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Official indifference to the plight of germany's Jews was in evidence in the case of the St. Louis. The German ocean liner passed Miami in 1939.
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By the end of 1939 a quarter million jews remained in germany. Other nations that hitler occupied, had millions more. Hitler imposed what he called "The Final Solution"-a policy of genocide.
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Final solution reached its final stage in early 1942. At a meeting held in Wannsee, a lakeside suburb near Berlin, Hitler's top officials agreed to begin a new phase of the mass murder of jews. To mass slaughter and starvation thwy would add their method of killing-murder by poison gas.
