Fortified walls and barbed wire trap you. SS guards in high towers are posted with machine guns ready to kill. No clothes, no hope, food and water rare. The fate of death had become almost palpable in front of you as your people are lined up to die. The missing explanation for this horrific reality torments you and you wonder; what possessed these people to justify this level of cruelty? How did their hatred spring into elimination? In February 1933, Adolf Hitler led the Germans under fascist rule with his Nazi party. Hitler’s dislike and claims against Jews was evident at this time, but was not expected to augment into extermination. Between 1933 and 1945, more than six million ‘enemies’ of Hitler were murdered in an industrialized, orderly fashion. Elie Wiesel describes the immense suffering at Buchenwald and Auschwitz in Night, “Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never” (32) . Mostly Jews, gypsies, the disabled, homosexuals and other minorities suffered Hitler’s plan of final solution. This plan of final solution was a result of deep-rooted anti-Semitism and one man’s forceful convictions that were able to convince Germans that killing Jews was right.
Hitler’s coup in Germany was perfectly timed with the current mood of Germany. After World War I, the treaty of Versailles took hope and progress from the German people, leaving them only with guilt that led to poverty and inflation. Under the Treaty of Versailles, Germany lost territory to France, and all of its overseas colonies. Germany was forbidden from making any kind of war-materiel, air force or submarines. In addition, Germany was forced to pay $33 Billion over the next 30 years. This was after a loss of millions of young German men and countless supplies. Weak leadership dealt with problems by printing money, and inflation was ridiculous from 1918...