Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria. He was born into a family of six children by parents Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. Growing up Adolf had a lot of trouble getting along with his strict father, because he didn’t approve of Adolf’s interest in art …show more content…
He displayed the belief in anti- Semitism at its worst and was able to get almost all of Germany to follow behind him.“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”- Adolf Hitler.2 In 1935 Hitler and his Nazi party announced new laws involving the status of Jews. Calling it the Nuremberg laws. They took away German Jews of their German citizenship, and created the law that states Jewish people are banned from marrying or having any relationship with a non-Jewish German.3 Hitler voiced his hatred for Jews all across Germany and many, many people followed him. On November 7th a 17-year-old German, Jewish refugee named Herschal Grynszpan, killed the third secretary of the German embassy, Ernst Vom Rath, as revenge for Germany deporting his father to Poland.4 This made many Germans very angry, resulting in a specific group wanting revenge on all Jewish, German people. On November 9th, 1938 the Night of Broken Glass occurred. The group of angry Germans and many that followed stormed the streets of Reich. Shattering windows and destroying over 7000 Jewish businesses, as well as killing dozens of Jewish people. Including women and children.5 A survivor says “Then we heard the noise of furniture being thrown from the top floor to the street, then a terrible …show more content…
Hitler voiced his beliefs and how he felt about the German Jews. Many agreed with him and followed him because they thought he was a great leader who was going to save their country…. But lots of Germany's population saw all the terrible things he was capable of doing, so they followed him in fear of what he might do to them if they stood against him. The main thing that everyone feared of Hitler was his capability of killing so many innocent people just because he believed they caused Germany’s loss in world war one. In early 1942, Hitler’s holocaust operation was at its worst. The plan was to transport all of the Jewish community to concentration camps where they would be enslaved, tortured and killed. The first train holding the Jewish prisoners deported from central Germany on October 16th 1941. At first the women, men, and children were worked as slaves at the camps but then the murders began. The main killing device the natzi’s used were the gas showers. They would bring a large group of Jews into an enclosed box, then release gas called Zyklon B that would slowly kill them all. Another way they killed the Jewish families at the camps were in shooting lines, they would also burn hundreds of slaves alive at a time in giant built ovens.9 By the end of the war the natzi’s had killed over 6 million innocent Jewish people. “Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days