Adolf Hitler believed that Jews were a lesser race, and that they should be eliminated. Anti-Semitism did not start with Hitler, but he did come up with the “final solution” ("Holocaust | The Reasons for the Holocaust"). At the beginning of the war, in 1939, Germany occupied the western half of Poland. The German police forced many Polish Jews from their houses, and made them move into ghettos. There was overpopulation in the ghettos, which in turn caused many diseases to spread around them. As this was happening to the Jews in Poland, Jews in Germany were made to give up their property ("Holocaust History The Outbreak of World War II and Anti-Jewish Policy”). At the start of fall in 1939 in Nazi officials selected about 70,000 Germans to be gassed to death for mental disabilities. This type of occurrences happened during the Holocaust ("The Holocaust - World War
Adolf Hitler believed that Jews were a lesser race, and that they should be eliminated. Anti-Semitism did not start with Hitler, but he did come up with the “final solution” ("Holocaust | The Reasons for the Holocaust"). At the beginning of the war, in 1939, Germany occupied the western half of Poland. The German police forced many Polish Jews from their houses, and made them move into ghettos. There was overpopulation in the ghettos, which in turn caused many diseases to spread around them. As this was happening to the Jews in Poland, Jews in Germany were made to give up their property ("Holocaust History The Outbreak of World War II and Anti-Jewish Policy”). At the start of fall in 1939 in Nazi officials selected about 70,000 Germans to be gassed to death for mental disabilities. This type of occurrences happened during the Holocaust ("The Holocaust - World War