The Nuremberg Laws (named after the German city where the Nazi Party held its massive rallies) were anti-semitic laws enacted in 1935 to identify and marginalize Jews on a racial basis.
The Nazi began the process of "ghettoizing" Jews by segregating them from the larger population by force. The most famous of these was in Warsaw, where diseases like typhus and outright starvation killed thousands.
As the Third Reich expanded special paramilitary groups were sent out with the express orders to annihilate Jews, Gypsies, and Russian political prisoners. Tragically, it was soon determined that Jews were "not worth the price of a bullet."
In January of 1942 a meeting was held in Wansee, a suburb of Berlin, where the "Final Solution" to the "Jewish Problem" was formulated--the systematic murder of 6 million Jews in death camps throughout the Reich.
The video clip is a fascinating history of the building where the Wansee Conference took place. Pay particular attention to the roles of Eichmann and Heydrich.
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