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 | | The guiding ideology of the Nazi movement was provided, of course, by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and outlined in his Mein Kampf (a hybrid memoir and political manifesto that he dictated in prison following the failed attempt to overthrow the Bavarian state government in 1924). |
 | | Once the Nazis were in power, attacks on Jews became more legalistic: Jews were excluded from government jobs and licensed professions (law, medicine, etc.), and ultimately stripped of their German citizenship. |
 | | The Nuremberg Laws, which defined who a Jew was, were a major step on the path to the Final Solution, as Hitler's plan to eradicate European Jewry was known. |
| college.hmco.com /history/world/resources/students/primary/nuremberg.htm (586 words) |
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