When Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he wanted to create a superior and master Germanic race also called the Aryan race. An Aryan was blue eyed, blonde and tall. He believed that having a pure race was needed in order to have a powerful nation and also to gain control of the world. This idea was spread throughout Germany publicly through classrooms, movies, radios, and newspapers. Hitler viewed the Jews as a race who live off other races and weakened them. The Jews were the racial enemies of Germany.
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg laws took the citizenship of Jews away from them. Any person that had even only a quarter of Jewish blood, was considered Jewish. The laws prohibited the German Jews from marrying anyone of the Aryan race. The businesses of Jewish owners were seized by Non-Jewish people. Careers were also taken away. Jews were required to have a red "J" on their identity cards to make it easy for police to recognize Jews.
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
On November 1938, Jewish homes and schools were vandalized and destroyed by the Nazis. Windows of many Jewish businesses and buildings were smashed. This incident occurred after a German staff of the Embassy was shot by a Jewish teen. Some Jews were rounded up and brought to the Polish border. They were abused beaten were brutally.
Ghettos and Concentration camps
Ghettos were set up to isolate the Jews from the rest of the Non-Jewish society. Jews had to wear a yellow badge shaped as a star which identified them easily as Jews.The ghettos had the worst living conditions. The most populated ghetto was Warsaw. 400,000 Jews crammed, and lived in harsh conditions. Because of the Hitler's "Final Solution" Ghettos were were destroyed because the solution called for the murder of all Jews. Jews were shot at the ghettos or taken by train to be killed at killing centers. Others were brought to work at concentration camps where some Jews were killed by gas chambers. Auschwitz was the largest and most popular concentration camp. It consisted of 3 main camps.