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the terror begins
Communists, Socialists, and other political opponents of the Nazis were among the first to be rounded up and imprisoned by the regime. -
takeover of power
In March 1933, Adolf Hitler addressed the first session of the German Parliament (Reichstag) following his appointment as chancellor. -
from citizens to outcasts
Many Germans continued to enter the Jewish stores despite the boycott, and it was called off after 24 hours. In the subsequent weeks and months, more discriminatory measures against Jews followed and remained in effect. -
nazi race laws
Among other things, the laws issued in September
1935 restricted future German citizenship to those
of “German or kindred blood,” and excluded those
deemed to be “racially” Jewish or Roma (Gypsy). -
the sicence of nazi
Members of the Hitler Youth receive instruction in racial hygiene at a Hitler Youth training facility. The Nazis divided the world’s population into superior and inferior “races.”