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The Condemned
After taking power in 1933, the Nazis had concentrated on silencing their political opponents- communists, socialist, liberals, and anyone else who spoke out against the government. -
The Persecution Begins
On April 7, 1933, shortly after Hitler took powerful In Germany, he ordered all "non Aryans" to be removed from government jobs. -
Jews Targeted
In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property. -
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Kristallnacht
November 9-10, 1938, became known as Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass." Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. -
Hitler's "Final Solution"
By 1939 only about a quarter million Jews remained in Germany. But other nations that Hitler occupied had millions more. -
The Condemned
Gypsies, freemasons, and Jehovah's Witnesses were some groups that they turned against. Concentration camps, were labor camps. -
Mass Exterminations
The first, chelmono, began operating, before the meeting of Wannsee. Each camp had several huge gas chambers in which as many as 12,000 people could be killed a day. -
The Final Stage
The final solution reached its final stage in early 1942. At a meeting held in Wannsee, a lakeside suburb near Berlin, Hitler's top officials agreed to begin a new phase of Jews.
