< ! -- In Germany , Nazism led Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , who came to power on 30 January 1933 shortly afterwards instituted repressive legislation which denied the Jews basic civil rights . In September 1935 , the Nuremberg Laws prohibited sexual relations and marriages between " Aryans " and Jews as '' Rassenschande '' ( " race disgrace " ) and stripped all German Jews , even quarter - and half-Jews , of their citizenship , ( their official title became " subjects of the state " ) . It instituted a pogrom on the night of 9 – 10 November 1938 , dubbed '' Kristallnacht '' , in which Jews were killed , their property destroyed and their synagogues torched . Antisemitic laws , agitation and propaganda were extended to German-occupied Europe in the wake of conquest , often building on local antisemitic traditions . In the east the Third Reich forced Jews into ghettos in Warsaw , in Kraków , in Lvov , in Lublin and in Radom . After the beginning of the war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1941 a campaign of mass murder , conducted by the Einsatzgruppen , culminated from 1942 to 1945 in systematic genocide : the Holocaust . Eleven million Jews were targeted for extermination by the Nazis , and some six million were eventually killed
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