How the Holocaust Affected Its Jewish Victims

od- simply because we were Jews." This was a period of dismay for Germany, and Germany was "looking for a savior" 3. This savior came in the form of a small little man with black hair and a radical, and, unfortunately, charismatic personality, the leader of the (future) Nazis, Adolf Hitler, an Anti-Semitic, murderous person who believed that for world perfection, the Jews must be destroyed. Hitler believed the German race superior to all others, especially the Jews, and stated it very clearly in his famous book, "Mein Kampf". He compared them to "maggots in a rotting body" and even went as far to state "We must be ruthless...terror is the most effective political instrument... it is my duty to make use of every means of training the German people to cruelty... A violently active, dominating, intrepid brutal youth- that is what I am after." 4 He was, indeed, after the Jews; his goal was to destroy the Jews in every way possible- economically, physically, mentally, socially, and globally. He
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