The AHNENPASS (Passport) was introduce in Germany in 1933 and considered to be the precursor to the holocaust.
It was the first legal attempt by a government to define who was Aryan and who was Jewish. Only Aryans could work in public service industries – lawyers, teachers, doctors and other professionals. You even had to have a Ahnenpass to attend school or get married. It had to b...
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