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Hitler Comes to Power
with the exception of the Socialists and
Communists—passed the “Enabling Act” giving Hitler
the power to rule by emergency decree. -
Citizens to Outcasts
The Nazis initiated a boycott of Jewish shops and businesses across Germany -
"Night of Broken Glass"
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. -
Search for Refuge
Before being aloud to leave, Jews had to get an exit visa, plus pay large sums of money in taxes and additional fees. -
American Responses
The passenger ship St. Louis, seen here
before departing Hamburg, sailed from Germany to
Cuba carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jews. -
Life in the Ghetto
German authorities sealed the Warsaw ghetto, severely restricting supplies for the more than 300,000 Jews. -
Mobile Killing Squads
About a quarter of all Jews who perished in the Holocaust
were shot by SS mobile killing squads and police battalions
following the German invasion of the Soviet Union. -
Concentration Camp
The majority of Jews who entered the
Nazi killing centers were murdered in gas
chambers.