Antisemitism

Hitler believed Germans were a super-race and blamed other races for weakening the German people. He said that Jews were responsible for many German problems and several laws were passed against them. They were called the Nuremberg Laws:  Jews were not considered German citizens any more.

• Marriage and sexual relationships between Jews and other Germans were banned.
  

  Nuremberg Laws (Dominio público)
• All Jews had to wear a yellow badge (star of David) on their clothes.
• They were not accepted in most jobs.

In November 1938 a Jew murdered a German diplomat in Paris. After that there was rioting throughout Germany. Thousands of Jewish shops, houses and synagogues were smashed and thousands of Jews were arrested. This was called the Night of the Broken Glass (Kristallnacht). Jews were sent to Concentration Camps or humiliated and mistreated in public. People believed the camps were work-camps where the Jews would work for Germany, but, in fact, the Nazis tried to exterminate the Jewish race. Things were going to be even worse. In 1940, the Jews were moved into ghettos; like Warsaw (the biggest one) where a lot of people died from starvation and disease (500,000 people)