A similarity between Nazi policies towards Jewish people during World War II and policies in other countries during preceding centuries was that

Discrimination against Jewish people existed in many countries for centuries before World War II, through laws and social practices that restricted their rights. Nazi Germany intensified this persecution through measures such as excluding Jews from jobs and public life, and ultimately carried out genocide. The broad similarity is discrimination, not the specific Nazi policies of mass deportation or the systematic destruction of Jewish religious life.

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