After WWI, Germany fell into a depression. Hitler slowly took advantage of Germany's vulnerability and eventually rose as Chancellor of Germany taking over the military and convincing the Germans that the Jewish were to blame. In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws stripped the Jews of their rights. In 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, starting WWII. Hitler tyrannized the Jews with midnight raids and deportations to concentration camps. Hitler had a significant amount of support but, pockets of anti-Hitler groups began to take stands.
Political Cartoon of Hitler,  1939,  EuroMaidan Press 
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Nazi Power during WW2 map, 2010, Devian Art
The red areas are the places that were taken over by the Nazis and Hitler during WWII.  

Harms Against Those Different

Hitler speaks to Germany about the Jewish people. He convinced thousands that they were the cause of Germany's problems.
"The following Reich Citizenship
 Law stripped all Jews of the political rights deriving from 
German Reich citizenship
 and relegated them to
​ the status of second-class citizens. "
~German History for documents and images.
Nuremberg Law Chart, 1935, National Archive
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 "The regime used this legal demotion to push the Jews out of a number of professions, occupations, and programs of study for which Reich citizenship was required."
​~German History for documents and images.
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The Nuremberg Laws

"The 'Law for the  Protection of German Blood and German Honor' (Blood Protection Law)' aimed to isolate the Jews racially and socially by prohibiting them, under pain of severe punishment, from marrying or having sexual relations with non-Jews. In addition, Jews were prohibited from employing Aryan housemaids younger than 45. They were also barred from flying the new, official swastika
flag. "
~German History for documents and images.
Q: "How do you think Hitler brought thousands of people to believe that his treatment of Jews was okay? Were people really so ignorant against his crimes or were they pretending to ignore them?"


​“Slated for extermination were those Hitler considered 'inferior' : Jews, Slavs, political dissidents (people opposed to the Nazis, such as Communists), Gypsies or Roma, people who were physically disabled or considered mentally ill, and people who might be gay.”
~​Toby Axelrod
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