People have claimed that Jewish people were different, trying to come up with a reason for the unexplainable tragedy of the Holocaust. Before the Holocaust, Jewish people in Europe led normal lives. Nobody thought of Jews any different than themselves. Judaism was a common religion that had spread throughout Germany, England, and many other countries. When the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), Jews were looked on as disease that could infect and kill the party. The NSDAP was eventually shortened to the Nazi Party derived from the German word for the group, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. The Jewish people were soon being persecuted along with many other minorities, for no apparent reason. In these pre-1933 pictures,
