Anti-Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2016 Font Size Small The Nazi Party came to power in Germany in 1933 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler and ruled the country until losing World War II in 1945. Throughout the 1930s, Germany enacted a series of anti-Jewish, or anti-Semitic, laws as Hitler sought to create a "master race" of white "Aryan" Germans. Many of these discriminatory laws made it easy to locate, isolate, and move Jews into concentration camps throughout Nazi-occupied Europe. Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazi government during the Holocaust. As you read, takes notes on the different types of discrimination that Jewish people in Germany faced. what is central idea