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History of the Jews in Germany

Long time ago, very very long ago, there were some people called the Jews. They lived in a place far away from here, in a country called Israel.
But one day, something very bad happened to these people called the Jews. They were forced to leave their country and they had to go and live in other places.

Some of the Jews came to a place called Germany to live. They started to live there a very long time ago, like more than a thousand years ago.

At first, the Jews were welcomed and were allowed to live freely in Germany. They made their own communities and lived their lives peacefully. But then, something horrible happened again.

In the 1930s, a man named Adolf Hitler became really powerful in Germany. He and his followers didn't like the Jews, and they did some really bad things to them. They hurt them, destroyed their homes and businesses, and even killed many of them. This was called the Holocaust, and it was a very dark time for the Jews, not just in Germany, but in many other parts of the world too.

After the war ended, Germany felt really bad about what they had done to the Jews, and they made some new laws to protect Jewish people from discrimination. Today, there are still Jewish communities in Germany, and they are free to practice their religion and live their lives without fear.