During World War II (1939-1945), there were many of concentration camps build throughout Germany and Europe for the imprisonment and killing of millions of Jews. At the time Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of Germany. He influenced all Germans into believing that the Jewish people were responsible for the loss of World War I and the economic decline in Germany. Among the thousands of concentration camps set up in the Holocaust, Auschwitz was the largest and most well-known.
Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, in Austria on April 20, 1889, he was the third son of Alois and Klara Hitler. Hitler was never good at school so he tried to pursue his dreams of becoming a painter. He tried tice to get into the Academy for Art in Vienna, but was rejected both times. Hitler then enlisted in the army where he served four years of front-line service. He served as an intelligence agent for the military authorities, where he attended a meeting of the tiny German Workers Party in 1919. He later joined the party and became its leader and
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That is when Germany invaded the Soviet Union. People who followed the German army into battle were the Einsatzgruppen. These were killing squads supported by local people, one of their main tasks was to kill all Jewish men, but towards the end of the year they began to eliminate Jewish women, children and their siblings. By December 1941, over 500,000 Soviet Jews had been killed. However, for the Nazis leadership, this way of killing was insufficient. Therefore, Hitler decided to make various ways or killing methods to kill more Jews at a faster rate. On January 20, 1942, 15 leading officials of the Nazi state met in Wannsee, a suburb of Berlin, to discuss the “Final solution.” The ’Final solution’ was a code name for the murder of all the Jews in Europe. The people who met at the conference discussed about how to make mass murder happen in an organized and discrete