The leader of the Nazi party, Adolf Hitler, blamed Germany's economic problems on Germany's Jewish population. When Hitler became leader of Germany, he passed laws denying citizenship to Jews, forbidding them to marry non-Jews, and began depriving them of their property and sending them to concentration camps to work as slave labor.
Hitler also instituted a secret rearmament program. When Great Britain, France, and other European nations learned of Hitler rebuilding Germany's military, they did nothing, and Hitler took this as a sign that he could do just about anything he wished without interference from anyone else-and so he did.
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