It began LONG before 1942, in the early '30s, with the systematic extermination of the insane (including many thousands of post-tramatic-stress-syndrome WWI veterans...), the retarded, the terminally ill, and of course in abortion of "undesireables"...
This is why people like myself and many fellow FReepers find the far left pro-death regime coming into power so frightening.
>>>It began LONG before 1942, in the early ‘30s...
Bump.
Along with the confiscation of businesses and wealth of some prominent Jews.
But, ironically having Jews in ownership positions was convenient for hiding business assets. One way of accomplishing that was purchasing Jewish identities from wealthy, accomplished Jews that were eliminated early on by the Reich.
Back in the 30s. Many of those identities were also sold to spies and strategically placed globally too.
http://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/bibliographies/trade-with-third-reich.html
Trade With the Third Reich