Beginning January 30, 1933, when Adolph Hitler came into power as the chancellor of Germany, Germany and Poland began to see the first signs of the most destructive ethnic cleansings of European history. Hitler, as well as the Nazi party, held the belief that those of the Jewish population had diluted the pure German economy and culture. Through a series of political actions and explicit propaganda, Hitler and the Nazi party created a world of anti-Semitic racism with the claim that the Aryan race, or Germans, was supreme in all aspects. The Jewish Holocaust was a genocidal event that included a series of racist persecutions, involving every imaginable violence, not ending until May 8, 1945, with the help of allied forces. Ultimately, the Jewish Holocaust ended with an unthinkable death toll of over six million people belonging to the Jewish faith, with over one million of those deaths being children, and the destruction of more than five thousand Jewish communities. Those dead equaled a total of two-thirds of the entire European Jewish population and one-third of the world’s total Jewish …show more content…
Subsequent to the assassination of Austria’s crown prince in June of 1914, World War I had begun. In November 1919, after four years of fighting an armistice ended the war and returned the troops to their homeland. During this time, Emperor Wilhelm II and all reigning princes abdicated their thrones, and the following year (1919) Germany’s new political leadership signed the Treaty of Versailles. With the signed treaty, Germany accepted defeat by those who opposed the Central Powers during World War I. The Treaty of Versailles was a profound humiliation for Germany, and is often perceived as critically influential to the rise of Adolph Hitler into his accepted position of power and