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When Adolf Hitler rose to power in January 1933, the Nazi party immediately began excluding Jewish people from as many aspects of regular life in Germany as possible. -
The Nazis pass the Nuremburg Laws, this was a set of laws that completely set Jewish people apart from everybody else in Germany and deprived them of their basic rights. -
"The night of broken glass". Nazi leaders organized the destruction of many Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and homes. This event got it's name from the glass that littered the streets when the violence was finished. -
When WWII started in September 1939, Nazi priorities shifted from complete expulsion of Jewish people from Germany to moving the Jewish German population to concentrated areas. As a temporary measure, ghettos were established in the Generalgouvernement. -
When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, SS leaders, the police, and leaders of the German armed forces made pre-invasion agreements. Acting as mobile killing units, troops conducted shooting operations with the goal of annihilating entire Jewish communities.