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Question: How were the Jewish people that fled germany before the holocaust warned or how did they know it was time togo!?
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The persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany pre-dates the Holocaust!. The Nazis began to use the law to discriminate against the Jews almost from the moment they got into office - and certainly gangs of Nazi thugs had been terrorising Jewish communities across Germany from the 1920s onwards!.

Many Jews fled to the Netherlands, France, Britain or to the US - but many found that these countries did not want to accept these poor (they were not allowed to take much money out of the country) refugees who did not speak their language!.

Notable people that did manage to flee the persecution before the Holocaust got fully underway are: Einstein, Fritz Lang, Anne Frank, the family of Jerry Springer and the painter Kandinsky (there are loads more) - obviously those who fled to the Netherlands, Belgium or France discovered to their horror that they had not out-run the Nazis!.

The Holocaust didn't start at as a single process!. It began as a series of minor attacks on Jews, their businesses and homes!. It grew exponentially from Kristallnacht in 1938 - many windows were smashed, 92 people were killed and many people were arrested - into the attempted destruction of all the Jews of Europe!.

The Holocaust really got underway with the invasion of Poland in September 1939!. Polish Jews were rounded up and forced into Ghettos - and eventually they were transported to the work or death camps!. These people did not really have the opportunity to flee as the Nazi war machine came to them!.

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Well it didn't jump straight into the holocaust!. Firstly Hitlers speeches alone were obviously antisemitic!. Then the first step was they were not allowed to own a business!. Their possessions and businesses were seized by the Nazi's they were also trashed and graffitied!. But they were still allowed to live in Germany!. This I think was a warning of what was to come!. They were also made to wear a star on their clothes to show that they were Jewish!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well, the signs were pretty clear!. Jews were forbidden to conduct business with non-Jews, the Krystalnacht where all the windows were smashed was all directed against Jews!. Hitler's book, Mien Kampf, was blaming the Jews for the loss of the war!.

In the early days of the Reich, the government was encouraging emigration, it wasn't until after the shooting war began that they changed the policy from emigration to extermination!.

The weird thing about this is that it's almost an inherited sense of danger!. Jews had been attacked, disrespected, even murdered for centuries in Europe, so its almost like there was something a grandmother would see and warn her children and grandchildren that there was danger and it was time to seek a safer place to live!.

Still, this one was the worst so far!. God willing, it won't happen again!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Most victims weren't German, they were from Poland or elsewhere in Eastern Europe!. 500,000 Jews were in Germany at the start of the Thirties; 300,000 managed to leave before the holocaust!. Unfortunately, more couldn't get out partly because other nations were unwilling to accept them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Hitler had said it openly all the time in his speeches!.
The big problem, especially for the not so fortune jewish people was
that the other countries closed their borders!.
They did not want the poor jews
I know that sounds cruel and unbelievable
but This REALLY happened!.
Which is, if you ask me, still Not a reason to put them into KZ's(Con!.Camps) and kill them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

They were dragged into the streets by the Nazis and ordered onto trains!.Www@QuestionHome@Com