The first concentration camp was established in Dachau on March 23, 1933. It was then that more concentration camps were built, and as soon as Hitler came into power (2 months later) the Jews began getting shipped to them.
According to the census of June 16, 1933, the Jewish population of Germany, including the Saar region (which at that time was still under the administration of the League of Nations), was approximately 505,000 people out of a total population of 67 million, or somewhat less than 0.75 percent. That number represented a reduction from the estimated 523,000 Jews living in Germany in January 1933; the decrease was due in part to emigration following the Nazi takeover in January. (An estimated 37,000 Jews emigrated from Germany during 1933.)
But where does it end? At what point do we say, we got enough of the really bad guys and let it lie. Not sleeping dogs lie, but allow people to move foward and past. I'm sure that guy has horrible war stories like everyone else.
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