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  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Throughout history, injustices on humanity have been visible. The Jewish Holocaust has to be one of the most prominent. In 1933, the Nazi Party led by Adolf Hitler sanctioned anti-Jew campaigns that included the Nuremberg Laws, which defined the meaning of being Jewish based on ancestry. Because of these laws, Jews were isolated from society. This was only a meager element of what European Jews had yet to endure. Jews were progressively forced out of the German Economy, and their assets were turned over to the German government and the public. With the degradation of the Jewish people came organized demonstrations by the Germans. Businesses were destroyed, synagogues demolished, and nearly a hundred Jews killed. In many ways this was the start of Hitler and his Nazi’s Aryanization. In a meeting of Hitler’s elite officials, the idea of complete annihilation of Jews in Europe was manufactured. In 1938 the Nazi’s plan for the Jewish people were outlined in â€Å"The Final Solution.† This was a plan that included deportation, exploitation, and eventually extermination of European Jews. Derivations from â€Å"The Final Solution† were concentration and death camps of Germany and Poland and other parts of Nazi controlled Europe. In September 1939, Germany invaded western Poland. Jews that remained in German controlled territories were taken to ghettos and/or concentration camps that were set up to alienate Jews from the rest of the public. The quality of l...