Removing Jews from government jobs was an example of what?

Correct answer: Discrimination in employment

The direct answer is A: discrimination in employment. Removing Jews from government jobs was not a neutral administrative change; it was a state-directed policy that denied people work because of their Jewish identity. Step by step, the regime first defined Jews through racial laws, then excluded them from public service, and later expanded discrimination to education, business, property and citizenship. Option A correctly names unequal treatment in access to employment. Option B, reform in sports, has no connection with dismissal from government posts. Option C, free elections, is incorrect because Nazi policies reduced political freedom rather than expanding it. Option D, agricultural growth, concerns farming and production, not racial exclusion from jobs. This example also shows how persecution developed gradually: legal discrimination and loss of livelihood prepared the way for further isolation and violence. Memory cue: when a group is denied a job because of identity, think employment discrimination and institutional exclusion.