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According to Weisel, with Germany's defeat in World War I, the nation was left with a broken government, a severely limited military, shattered industry and transportation, and a sinking economy under the strain of war debts. Many Germans were demoralized. (2000, pg 10)The Nazi (National Socialist German Workers Party) party came to power in the late 1920s. The party, through its leader Adolf Hitler, offered to restore German its pride. Holding large rallies, Hitler spoke of Germany's long military tradition, its national character, and its entitlement to greatness. To explain Germany's fallen state, Hitler targeted the Jews and others whom he said were not true Germans. In 1925, Hitler had published in Mein Kampf , writing: "Today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." Many Germans were swayed by his speech and responded enthusiastically to his ideas, and in 1933 he was appointed Fuhrer (leader) of the country. (2000, pg 10 - 11) Once in power, Hitler was able to restore Germany's economy and it's military. He used that progress to support his expansion efforts, unchecked by Allied countries struggl
Hitler is already considering the invasion of Poland and numerous concentration camps and forced labor camps are already in operation. By the end of 1943, 900,000 Jews had been killed. 5 million Jews managed to flee before the German troops arrive. org/partners/beyond-the-pale/english/52. html)The Nazi leaders of Germany, at the Wannsee conference, decided on "the final solution of the Jewish question" which was the attempt to exterminate every Jew in Europe. (Robert Fulford, "Historian recalls life as a Jew among the Nazis", Article, Globe and Mail, Toronto ON, 1998) In 1939: The Holocaust, else known as the Shoah -- the systematic extermination of Jews in Germany begins. A Mischling is a member of mixed race, was defined as anybody who had either one or two Jewish grandparents. The atmosphere of anti-Jewish violence, which intensified from day to day, was given full expression in the November pogrom, known as Kristallnacht - the Night of Broken Glass. Outside cities with large Jewish populations, mass killings of unprecedented scope and speed take place - in Babi Yar outside Kiev, in Ponar outside Vilna, in the VII. html) Mobile units of the SS, the "Einsatzgruppen," move in behind the regular army to "once and for all clean Poland of Jews, intelligentsia, clergy and nobility.
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