Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party were threatening and executing Jewish people and other minority groups in Germany during the 1930s. The Nazi party had risen to power publishing anti-Jewish propaganda, and Hitler's book Mein Kampf called for the removal of Jews from Germany. Newly enacted Nuremberg Laws legalized anti-Semitism and restricted Jews from interacting with Germans, reflecting the Nazi party's racial ideology. Jewish people were being systematically persecuted and their population in Germany was decreasing rapidly under Hitler's genocidal rule.