... to regain back their lost pride, and here rose Hitler, a gifted public speaker, who appealed to the mass; the working class people. At first the Jews had to wear the "star of David" stickers on their arms. Then they were banned from public places. Then they were holed up in ghettos; a confined area of buildings where they could not get out ... world, only one race was fit to survive; the Aryan race. Aryans were tall, with beautiful facial features, white skinned, wit blonde hair and blue eyes; which is ironic as Hitler himself was short, with black eyes and hair. Inside the holocaust: t...

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... money was too enticing to pass up. Meanwhile, Hitler was slowly destroying the Jews from within. It began with stereotypes, which advanced to identification of all Jews with the Yellow Star of David. It progressed from isolating in ghettos to concentration camps, which finally escalated to death camps. Genocide didn't become public policy overnight. It was this quiet, gradual progression that ... to come, and every message of hate and prejudice helped the Germans to rationalize either their apathetic attitude or their enthusiastic participation in murder. The Jews were dehumanized in th...

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... write or publish, to act on stage or in films, to teach, to work in hospitals or in banks, or to sell books. All Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David as identification. Nazi violence against Jews mounted, the Germans would encourage them more and more until they were totally gone. In November of 1938, Nazi mobs carried out ... for public torture. Those who survived the last march were placed in concentration camps inside Germany. There, the Allied troops found them- they were skeletons, starved and shrunken, with huge eyes starring out of swollen eye sockets. It was hard to...

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... they are forced out of the country. More and more countries close their gates to German Jewish refugees. As the process of removal does not proceed fast enough in the eyes of the government, a nationwide pogrom was organized for the weekend of November 9 and 10, 1938. All Jewish churches in Germany are set on fire, Jewish shops are ransacked and about ... remain in Germany. With the war in progress, emigration becomes almost impossible. In 1941, Jews in Germany - as all Jews in countries under German occupation - are made to wear a Jewish star - the yellow badge of the middle Ages. In 1...

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