with the Jews, what they called "The Jewish Question", from the moment they came to power

in 1933. They looked for ways to separate the Jews

from German Society, and the economy and politics, and civil society and culture and in everything.

They boycotted the Jews, passed laws against the Jews, disenfranchised the Jews, kicked

the Jews out of citizenship, and tried to force the Jews to immigrate from the Third

Reich, as a way of relieving Germany of this threat that the Nazis imagined.

The climax of all that, of the Nazi treatment of the Jews, came in November 1938, with the

violent, nationally organized "Kristallnacht Program", in which thousands of Jewish stores

were destroyed, homes were destroyed, more than 1,500 synagogues were burned to the ground,

more than 100 Jews were murdered, 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and taken to concentration

camps and to prison. And this pressure on the Jews to leave, to be separated from society,

continued and pushed the Jews - indeed, many were leaving as time went on, looking for

places to go. In the course of the pre-war years 1933 to September 1939, approximately

half of the German Jews actually left Germany, some 250,000. Unfortunately for many of them,

they ended up going to neighboring countries and being caught. Those who managed to get

further away of course ended up saving their lives, although they didn't exactly know that

that was the issue when they left.