Hitler's Rise To Power During World War II

One of the most memorable tragedies during World War II was the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a mass slaughter of European civilians, gypsies, the mentally ill, the disable, the blind and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II. As you may or may not know, Adolf Hitler was the the commander in chief of the Holocaust. His rise to power and his bewildering idea to begin the Holocaust might interest you. Hitler’s rise to power began before most would think, it all began in September 1919 in Germany, when he joined the political party Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. The Deutsche Arbeiterpartei abbreviated as DAP was later changed to NSDAP, the NSDAP was an abbreviation for the National Socialist German Workers Party, but more commonly known

Well On January 30, 1933 German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. For those of you who don’t know, a Chancellor is a senior state or legal official, this term is mostly used in European countries. At that time Germany is a nation with 566,000 Jewish people. Now that Adolf Hitler was Chancellor of Germany he successfully put his ideas into power. From then on Adolf Hitler started opening concentration camp after concentration camp. The first concentration camp was called Dachau and was opened in March of 1933. The other 21 main camps were Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Flossenbürg, Gross-Rosen, Herzogenbosch, Kaunas, Krakow-Plaszow, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Mittelbau-Dora, Natzweiler-Struthof, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, Riga-Kaiserwald, Sachsenhausen, Stutthof, Vaivara, Warsaw, Wewelsburg.

During the Holocaust Hitler started to persecute many groups of people just because they weren’t like him. Hitler’s idea behind the Concentration Camps was to capture and have a huge massacre of many non-german groups who didn’t have his same Nazi beliefs, this included Jehovah Witnesses, Roman Gypsies, courageous resisters, priest and pastors, homosexuals, people with interracial marriages, Rhineland Bastards (mulatto children), disabled, blind, civilians from many European countries, and prisoners of war. But he was mostly targeting Jews with the idea of persecuting

It would all start with the ruthless Nazi’s going into towns and capturing the following people; Jehovah Witnesses, Roman Gypsies, courageous resisters, priest and pastors, homosexuals, people with interracial marriages, Rhineland Bastards (mulatto children), disabled, blind, civilians from many European countries, and prisoners of war. The Nazi’s would go into your homes, damage them and take you away to a concentration camp. Upon your arrival you would be stripped of your clothes and put in prison uniforms, your head would be shaved, and you would get a number tattooed to your arm. The reason behind you getting a number tattooed was so that the Nazis could keep track of you and keep a record of if you are alive, dead, or escaped. You would then be divided into buildings by sex. Most mothers and daughters or fathers and sons were kept