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decrees and regulations regarding German Jews, including those that
barred Jews from German schools and universities, prohibited them from
holding jobs with the German government, and restricted their work in
medical, legal, financial, and other professions. Hitler’s anti-Jewish efforts
brought about the Holocaust. In this state-sponsored program, the Nazi
government imprisoned and murdered more than six million Jews and
other “undesirables” (including homosexuals, prisoners of war, non-Jewish
religious minorities, Communists, and the physically and mentally disabled)
before and during the war.
This propaganda
poster from around
1935 shows Adolf
Hitler triumphantly
holding the Nazi flag,
with a multitude of
supporters hailing him
in the background. The
German words at the
bottom mean “Long
live Germany.”
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