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In March 1933, Adolf Hitler addressed the first session of the German Parliament (Reichstag) following his appointment as chancellor.
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There was a boy-cott on Jewish stores, it was called off after 24 hours because many German citizens still entered the stores. In the subsequent weeks and months more discriminatory measures against Jews followed and remained in effect.
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Restricted German Citizens that were "racially" Jewish or Roma (Gypsy). It did not allow marriage and sexual relation-ships between Jews and non-Jews.
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The U.S. government denied permission for the Jews to enter the United States, the St. Louis, which was filled with people to trying to escape the Holocaust, returned to Europe. Some 250 of the refugees would later be killed in the Holocaust.
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The Nazi regime unleashed orchestrated anti-Jewish violence across Germany. synagogues were vandalized and burned, 7,500 Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed, 96 Jews were killed, and nearly 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
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Ghettos were city districts, often enclosed, in which the Germans concentrated the municipal and some-times regional Jewish population to control and segregate it from the non-Jewish population.
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Following June 1941 SS mobile killing squads and police battalions would go around killing Jews and in the end they would have killed about a quarter of all the Jews that died in the Holocaust.
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Danish rescuers ferried 7,220 Jews to safety across the narrow strait to neutral Sweden. Because of these rescue attempts more than 90 per-cent of the Jews in Denmark escaped deportation to Nazi concentration camps.
