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first concentration camp
created to imprison those who are considered enemy of the state. At first they mainly held political leaders -
boycott of Jewish shops
Nazis initiate a boycott of Jewish shops and goods. They posted signs in Jewish owned shops about it telling Germans to protect themselves against Jews. The next day the boycott was called off because Germans still continued to enter and buy things from Jewish stores. -
"Rohm Affair" or "night of long knives"
Hitler orders the purge of the Nazi party parliamentary formation starting on June 30th and ending July 2nd. he did this because of 2 things he needed the support of German army commanders and they were pressuring him into this. He also did this because he probably saw them as a potential threat to his power. -
restriction of German citizenship
In order to be a future German citizen you have to be of German or kindred blood which made it to where Jews and gypsy were no longer citizens. These laws also prohibited marriages or any other form of relationships between citizens and non citizens. -
beginning of forced labor
The Nazis began to force those in concentration camps to work for them to make up for labor shortages. They often had to work with out proper equipment, diets, and rest.So they literally almost worked them to death and then when no longer useful sent them to gas chambers. -
Jewish attempt to flee Austria
Hitler had taken over Austria and he had unleashed a wave of humiliation terror and confiscation among the Jewish people. Therefore they decided they were going to try and flee the country so they could survive. It wasn't as easy as it sounds though because they have to get exit visas and pay large sums of money and fees most of them probably don't have anymore or never did. -
Anti- Jewish violence increases
Anti-Jewish violence increases with the night of broken glass. The Nazis begin to unleash orchestrated Anti-Jewish violence across greater Germany. within these 48 hours the Nazis started burning and vandalizing places of Jewish worship,destroyed 7,500 of their business, killed 96 of them and sent arrested 30,000 Jewish men and sent them to concentration camps. -
creation of the first ghetto
The first ghetto ever created was in Poland in Piotrków Trybunalski. The largest ghetto in Poland was the the Warsaw ghetto.
