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Germans began systematically discriminating against Jews long before WWII.
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- 00:01
No History doesn't tell us whether hitler always meant for
- 00:05
the holocaust Teo happen What we do know is that
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from the moment he came to power he wanted the
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jews out of germany And how did he plan to
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accomplish this goal Archer wasn't by asking nicely Hitler decided
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to pass anti jewish laws Well between nineteen Thirty three
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nineteen forty five the nazis put more than two thousand
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laws on the books that were meant to make your
- 00:25
life unbearable If you were a german jew well the
- 00:28
nuremberg laws for example were designed to separate jews from
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other germans by keeping them out of colleges in certain
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degrees How simple by denying them german citizenship and by
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making it illegal for them to marry anyone belonging Teo
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hitler's master race Well these anti jewish laws were used
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in combination with other tactics For example germans were told
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to boycott jewish businesses in german Policemen were ordered to
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ignore jews who asked for help after their homes or
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businesses had been vandalised Yep germany was less than friendly
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place if you were a jew in the nineteen thirties
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And yet it's a fair question asked why didn't they
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All just leave But then things took a turn towards
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actual horror movie status with the nineteen thirty for sterilization
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law Basically the nazi started performing surgeries on people they
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believe to be inferior to them Jews weren't the only
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ones forcibly sterilized Homosexuals African germans and roma were also
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targets As they were feebleminded Hundreds of thousands of people
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went under the knife Several thousand many of whom were
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women died as a result of the sterilization procedure All
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of this because nazis believed they could eliminate certain trades
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from the human race Another part of jewish life in
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germany during the nineteen thirties was the concentration camp Yes
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these existed well before the start of world war two
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As soon as hitler became chancellor in nineteen thirty three
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he started looking for a place to stash people who
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disagreed with him Well several of these temporary camps turned
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permanent in nineteen thirty for when hitler put heinrich himmler
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the head goon of the gestapo in charge of the
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camp system With the permanent camps came a new group
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of ss officers called the deaths head units Clearly someone
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back in pre war germany was a voldemort Fans by
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the mid nineteen thirties two groups of people were being
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sent to places like da hao and booth involved These
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were the folks who were either enemies or were perceived
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to be enemies of the nazis And then there were
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the folks who just happened to look at an ss
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officer the wrong way Forced labor was the name of
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the game at the nazi concentration camps and even though
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the prisoners were actually put toe work on nazi construction
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projects they were treated horrifically overworked under fed and yet
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many people died from exhaustion or starvation or disease or
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other Of course it wouldn't be long before the camps
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took on A more sinister role is the places where
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jews and other uninjured men germans were taken to die
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Invasive laws boycotts violence arrest hitler retired to make germany
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a horrible place for jews toe live in many jews
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took the hint When hitler first came to power tens
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of thousands fled to other european countries However it would
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take a period of extreme violence in nineteen thirty eight
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for most of germany's jews to realize But it was
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time to get the heck out of dodge but we'll
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save that one for the next video Until then go
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what's Something fun and funny on youtube Send us the 00:03:22.243 --> [endTime] link Go i'll need it
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