"If the international financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in
plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be
the Bolshevizing of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the
annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe."
- Adolf Hitler- Jan 30, 1939
When the Nazi party came to power in January of 1933, it almost
immediately began to take hostile measures toward the Jewish people. The
government passed special legislation that excluded Jews from the protection
of German law. The property of Jews was then legally seized, and
concentration camps were set up in which Jews were executed, tortured, or
condemned to slave labor. The Nazis organized sporadic and local massacres
which occurred in a nationwide program in 1938. After the outbreak of World
War II anti-Semitic activity increased dramatically. By the end of the war,
millions of Jews and others targeted by the Nazis, had been killed in the
Holocaust. The......
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