The anti-Semitic philosophy of the Nazi party played a significant role in their rise to power during the 1930's. Economic and political conditions in Germany between 1918 and 1933 played a major role in the creation of a climate that made Nazism appeal to the German population. There was widespread unemployment and economic misery and following the trend of German history since the end of the 18th century, the German people turned towards nationalism. The Nazi party captured the nationalistic fervor of the country. The "spiritualism" and doctrines of Nazism struck a "reminiscent chord" in German tradition and cultural life.

National Socialism, an essentially German movement was influenced by trends from other countries, especially Italy, Russia and the United States. Russian monarchist emigres, who hovered close to the Nazi party during its early Munich Days, espoused beliefs that were additional fuel for the Nazi party's own anti-Semitism.

Henry Ford's book 'The International Jew' also had a great influence on the members of the Nazi party. Baldur Von Shirach, a former Nazi youth leader, told a psychologist, "

Early methods of extermination practiced by the Nazis involved the shooting and burying of Jews in mass graves. However, their methods became more depraved and sophisticated as time went on. By 1941, Zyklon B, a form of prussic acid, was being used at the camp at Auschwitz to gas prisoners. Elsewhere Jews were gassed by exhaust fumes from diesel engines. The Nazi extermination machine was so effective that the camp known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, at its peak, was capable of gassing and cremating almost 24,000 bodies per day. By the end of World War Two over six million Jews had been exterminated by the Nazi regime and it was only the end of the war that brought the genocide of the Jewish race to a halt.

November 1938 saw the intensification of the campaign against the Jews. Until that time the repression had been mainly political, but the Nazi party took the hatred of Jews to new depths.

The Nazi party set the Jews up as enemies and blamed them for all of Germany's troubles. The Jews became the scapegoat of the movement. They were held responsible for anything and everything that worked counter to the Nazi ideal, and anti-Semitism became the pivot of the whole totalitarian structure of the Third Reich. It also served as the vehicle not only for the consolidation of power at home, but as the instrument of Nazi policy that was used to stir up discontent abroad and a means of gaining support in all parts of the world. Anti-Semitism was already existent, and in some ways, deeply rooted in the western world. It provided an excellent tool with which the Nazis could galvanize and diffuse pro-Nazi sentiment. The Nazi slogan "Without a solution of the Jewish problem there is no mankind" found sympathetic ears among unscrupulous malcontents in many countries (Pinson, K 1966:493).

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