In Memory Of Millions

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onomic depression of the 1930s; fear of the spread of Communism; and Hitler’s charismatic personality” (“Holocaust”). Hitler did not receive many votes from the Reichstag, which was the legislative assembly of North German Confederation and the German empire, but he did receive a lot of support from the Conservative Party. This allowed him to start a coalition government. On January 30, 1933, Hitler was made chancellor by the current president, Paul von Hindenburg (“Holocaust”).
After the Nazis took power, they decided that racism and anti-Semitism would be two of their main points of the regime. The Nazis started anti-Semitic riots and campaigns of terror against the working Jews (“Holocaust”). It reached a peak on April 1, 1933, when Jewish owned shops and Jewish professionals were boycotted. The Nazi Party also made regulations and ordinances that took away the Jews’ civil rights and economic ways of survival. Six days later, the Reichstag passed a law that let the government dismiss all Jews from the German civil se...