were murdered in concentration or death camps. Some died of starvation and disease. Perpetrators committed crimes against Jews and others for many reasons, but mostly for power. They believed in an ideology of racial cleansing. Hitler's war was a continuous flow of propaganda and horrendous violence.
The Nazis began to take away the rights of Jews and others soon after he became chancellor. A series of laws were created banning "non-Aryans" from civil service, legal, medical, and dental professions, teaching positions, cultural and entertainment businesses, and the press. The Nuremberg laws were announced at a party rally. Jews no longer were German citizens; they were subjects. They were forbidden to marry Aryans (Nordic: of or relating to the Germanic peoples of northern Europe and especially of Scandinavia, Webster's online Dictionary) and were banned from flying the Reich and national flags. Jews were separated politically, socially, and legally from the Germans.
"Hitler's philosophy about terror was clear-cut: We must be ruthless...Only thus shall we purge our people of their softness...and their degenerate delight in beer-swilling...I don't want the concentration camps transforme
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