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Principles of social science
May 1935, Germany announced its rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty, and Nazi radicals demanded for more drastic measures against Jews; radicals hoped to segregate them entirely from the social, political, and economic life in Nazi Germany. On September 15, 1935, the “Party Rally of Freedom'' was a unique session of Reichstag; Parliament institutionalized legislation that invalidated Jews as Reich citizens with political rights. This legislation also forbade them to marry or have any sexual relations with those who were proven racial Germans, and prohibited the display of the new national flag (a banner with a swastika) and its colors by Jews.
The Nuremberg Laws were later followed by the so-called Final Solution, which sought to exterminate all Jews in Germany throughout 1941 and 1942. Beforehand, the Chancellor of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, expressed his idea to exterminate Jews in his two-volume autobiography, Mein Kampf. This autobiography accused Jewish people of conspiring against the government, and depicted Jews as parasites and a disease that sought to take control of Germany. The Nazi Party depended upon violent and racist propaganda to continue their plans without opposition from the public. With the supposed superiority of the Aryan race, Nazis deemed the Jewish population as inferior to all other races. Nazi Germany classified Jews, Roma, homosexuals, and the mentally and physically handicapped as inferior, which meant sending them to extermination camps by train. The conditions on the trains were inhumane. Passengers were tightly packed together and standing in cars with little to no water and food; under these horrendous conditions about twenty percent died. By the year 1943, there were six extermination camps with large gas chambers and
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