In 1933, Germany elected a Chancellor who wanted a Judenfrei Europe, a Europe with no Jews. He had laws that made it difficult for Jews to find a place to live or a place to work, so many Jews tried to leave Europe. Only no country outside Europe would take them. The Chancellor wanted to deport Jews, only Britain said the Royal Navy would prevent any such deportations.
So the Jews who wanted to leave Europe could not, and Germany were not allowed to deport them, so there they all were when the war started. The war was declared in 1939, but did not actually turn into a real war until 1940.
And then, with limited resources, the German leadership decided to implement the Final Solution to the Jewish problem.
The Chancellor also wanted a Europe that was Slav-free, and tried to kill off all the Slavs for Lebensraum, so Canada recently honoured a German who worked hard at getting rid of all the Slavs in Europe during WWII: didn't Canada and Germany fight together against the USSR in WWII? The Canadian Prime Minister seems to think so.
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