![]() ![]() Along with the Jews, anybody not in the good books of the Nazis, including the Roma people, social democrats, disabled people, trade unionists, and homosexuals, were also thrown into the camps. Many people were also forced to engage in hard labor. These concentration camps and ghettos were densely packed and brimmed with rampant diseases, malnutrition, scarcity, and hunger. Around six million Jews perished in these camps. Their business establishments were also vandalized, following which many Jewish people were arrested and sent to concentration camps. This assault kept building, and over the years, Jews were denied proper school education and university degrees their entry to theaters was banned, and they were forced to travel in separate trains. The harassment of Jews began with a boycott of Jewish businesses, dismissal from the civil service, and their treatment as subjects instead of German citizens. This was accelerated after Adolf Hitler rose to power. Eventually, the Nazi party’s racial anti-Semitism led to violence and annihilation. The Nazis added another dimension of racial anti-Semitism by portraying Jews as a race and not as a religious group. The Nazi party’s anti-Semitic view has religious roots which were further stoked by the political changes. ![]() ![]() Even before coming to power in Germany in 1933, the Nazis were open about their anti-Semitism. The Holocaust refers to the organized and state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime during World War II. ![]()
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