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=Why? =  Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933. He blamed the Jews for Germany's loss of World War I, and its economic difficulties. He also thought that Jews were a racial opposite of Germans. At the time Jews were only about 1% of Germany's population. Jews were shunned from German society. They were banned from schools, their military, public places, etc. In March 1938, Hitler annexed Austria by force. This left Austria's Jews with almost nothing. In 1940, Hitler ordered concentration camps for Jewish prisoners, and to involve slave labor.

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