Who+were+the+first+group+of+people+that+the+Nazis+persecuted?

** Q. Who were the first group of people that the Nazis persecuted? **
The first group of people persecuted by the Nazis was primarily political opponents, mostly communists, socialists, social democrats, and trade union leaders. The political prisoners were often German, but were also many soviets captured in the Russian front. In1934, the German central government and a variety of local governments, as well as local battalions of the Nazi SA (Sturmabteilungen; Assault Detachments) and SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squads), set up concentration camps all over Germany to confine political prisoners. The SS took control of the concentration camp system in 1934, had established its first concentration camp, Dachau, which housed thousands of political adversaries of the Nazis. Unlike Western liberals or nationalists, the Nazis did not find value in individuality. For Nazis, individualism was an “egotistic, culture-corroding, Jewish value that would tear apart the fabric of the communal nation” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). The Nazis believed that the individual had value only in his or her membership in the collective racial community. Anybody who criticized the Nazis beliefs were most likely considered a danger to the German government, and are swiftly disposed

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