Crystal Night: The Persecution Of Jews In Germany

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As said earlier anyone who wasn’t for Germany was against it, but some were persecuted simply because of their religion, their families religion, their background, or how they looked. The first to be targeted in Germany was the Jews. Hitler blamed Jews for Germany’s defeat in the first war. The persecution started in 1933 by banning Jews from certain professions and would occasionally boycott their shops. By 1935 the Nuremberg Laws were put in place, making Jews second class citizens and prevented them from marrying Non-Jews. They lost the right to vote and had to use only yellow painted seats on the bus. In 1938 Crystal Night happened after a nazi was Murdered by a Jew in Paris; Jewish synagogues, shops, and houses all over Germany were destroyed.

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