In Memory Of Millions

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s were prohibited by law to work in certain jobs, they had to live in a specific area together, they were not allowed to go to universities, they were not allowed in certain countries and even kicked out of some countries (“Holocaust”).
Many of the Germans believed the Jews were the reason they lost World War I. They said that during the war the Jews had betrayed the nation. Later, after the war, a Communist group tried to start a radical revolution in Bavaria, Germany. The attempt did not work. Many of the leaders in the group were Jews. Therefore, some Germans now felt that all Jews were associated with the Bolsheviks and that Jews were dangerous to Germany (“Holocaust”). This was the start of the Germans hatred towards all Jews.
Adolf Hitler was the leader of all the Nazis. He had said that the Jews were a plague and a cancer. He even wrote a book called Mein Kamf, meaning My Struggle, that blamed the defeat of Germany in World War I on a Jewish conspiracy (“Holocaust”). He had said the Jews should be exterminated for this. Hitler claimed that the Jews now had the ability to manipulate most of the media to their advantage. He believed that their power needed to be taken away, even if it was by taking them out. Hitler thought that the Germans needed to take over and maintain total supremacy through war against the Jews. This war would have to leave either group in extinction. Hitler believed that Nazism was going to recover the world and redeem humanity from the Jewish-Bolsheviks (“Holocaust”).
The Nazi Party started to gain popularity after the 1930 elections in Germany. In 1932, the Nazis had obtained the larger percentage of the votes. “The major factors in the Nazis’ electoral success were lingering anger at Germany’s military collapse toward the end of World War I; resentment toward the Versailles treaty, which had ended the war and imposed harsh conditions on Germany; the worldwide ec...