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Adolf Hitler come to power in Germany
started using government to target and exclude jews from Germany society -
foreign policy
This culminated in World War II, which began in Europe in 1939. Prewar and wartime territorial expansion eventually brought millions more Jewish people under German control. -
Nazi Germany began World War II
1939–1945 by attacking Poland. Over the next two years, Germany invaded and occupied much of Europe, including western parts of the Soviet Union. -
“Final Solution to the Jewish Question.”
Many Jews died as a result of these policies. But before 1941, the systematic mass murder of all Jews was not Nazi policy. Beginning in 1941, however, Nazi leaders decided to implement the mass murder of Europe’s Jews. -
How did the Holocaust end?
The Holocaust ended in May 1945 when the major Allied Powers (Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union) defeated Nazi Germany in World War II.