WWII: A Demon Named Adolf, and the Hell of a Holocaust

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Adolf Hitler

Hitler was a crazed madman. Who even knows why people chose to follow him. There were some who knew what he was about and some who didn't.

His subjects and assistants knew his mindset, and mostly didn't agree. Even his first assistant held Jewish people in his house. The people whom voted him in thought he was their savior. They later found, that he was their condemner. A man driven to fulfill his twisted lie of a dream.

In 1935, Hitler introduced the Nuremberg Laws, these laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship, and deprived them of their civil rights. In his speech introducing the laws, Hitler said that if they were "insufficient" in solving the "Jewish question," it would be necessary to pass a law "handing over the problem to the National Socialist Party for final solution." This expression became the standard Nazi euphemism (nice talk) for the extermination of the Jews.

Many historians date the start of the Holocaust to the riots of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, on November 9, 1938, in which Jews were attacked and Jewish property was vandalized all across Germany. Approximately 100 Jews were killed, and another 30,000 were sent to concentration camps, while over 7,000 Jewish shops and almost every synagogue in Germany were damaged or destroyed.

A number of deadly pogroms by local populations occurred during the Second World War, most with Nazi encouragement, and some spontaneously. This included the Iaşi pogrom in Romania on June 30, 1941, in which asmany as 14,000 Jews were killed by Romanian residents and police, and the Jedwabne pogrom, in which between 380 and 1,600 Jews were killed by local Poles in July 1941.

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