HIS 150 Lecture 5: why did the nazi's persecute the Jews
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On march the 9th, 1933, several weeks after hitler had assumed power; organised attacks on jews broke out. Two weeks later the first of the concentration camps opened in munich. On april the 1st, 1933, a general boycott took place, in which the. Nazi"s would stand outside of jewish business and make sure they get no customers. The nazi"s persecuted the jews because they believed that they were taking up all the jobs and earning all the money and hitler thought they were going to take over germany. Jews weren"t the only people hitler wanted to kill, there were a lot more such as, gypsies, polish, slavs (a group of people in central and eastern europe, speaking slavic languages.
