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Hitler becomes Chancellor
In March 1933, Hitler is appointed chancellor through the enabling acts -
Nazi race laws
The laws prohibited marriage and sexual relationships between Jews and Non jews -
Search for refuge
Jews in Vienna wait in line at the police station to obtain exits visas. They start to realize that Jews are being sent to concentration camps -
The night of the broken glass
Within 48 hours synagogues were vandalized and burned 7,500 Jewish businesses -
American responses
Government policies in the 1930's made it difficult for Jews seeking refuge to settle in the United States -
Mobile killing squads
About a quarter of all Jews who perished in the holocaust were shot by the SS mobile killing squads -
Deportations
Trains carrying Jews from German-Controlled Europe rolled into one of the six killing centers located along rail lines in occupied Poland -
Terror begins
Communist, Socialist and other Political opponents of the Nazi's were among the first to be rounded up and imprisoned by the regime
