Both intellectuals discussed the pros and cons of supporting the German Zionists as well, but von Leers asserted that establishing a Jewish homeland in British Palestine would create humanitarian and political problems for the region.[11] Upon achieving power in 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state began to implement increasingly severe measures aimed at segregating and ultimately removing the Jewish people from Germany and (eventually) all of Europe.[12] The next stage was persecution of Jews and the stripping of Jews of their citizenship through the Nuremberg Laws.[13][14] Later, during World War II, it became state-sponsored internment in concentration camps[15] and finally, the systematic extermination of the Jewish people (The Holocaust),[16] which took place as the so-called Final Solution to the Jewish Question.[7][17][18]