How Did Individual Choices Influence History

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Individual choices influence history. Adolf Hitler,Adolf Eichmann,Heinrich Himmler ,and Reinhard Heydrich were four men who made choices that influenced history.Adolf Hitler influenced history because he was the leader of the Nazi party.The Nazi party started as a gang soldiers in 1919,and later took control of Germany.The goal of the Nazis was to get rid of all of the Jewish people.Hitler started to slowly get rid of the Jewish people because he wanted a master race. He wanted the population to have blue eyes and blonde hair and began by eliminating Jews through expropriation, concentration in ghettos, deportation,mobile killing units ,and death camps. Hitler,Eichmann,Himmler,and Heydrich all worked together to get rid of Jewish people by killing them at death camps. The choices they made about mass killing of Jews created the Holocaust in Germany. …show more content…

“Hitler joined the party the year it was founded ,and became its leader in 1921” (“Holocaust Timeline: The Rise of the Nazi Party”).After World War I, the German people were humiliated.. The Nazi party gained more people and they ruled Germany. because they blamed at the Jews for Germany losing World War I and promised they would lead Germany to power again. The Nazis were also responsible for laws being made against foreigners and Jews. For example, they believed you had to have German blood for German rights "Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945”. (“The Nazi Party Platform”). This explains how Adolf Hitler’s choices influenced history. Hitler made choices to become a dictator, instead of a democratic president and he was able to influence people to follow

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