In 1919, the Nazi Party started as a gang of unemployed soldiers. In 1933 they became a legal government of Germany. In fourteen years, a once unknown corporal, Adolf Hitler, would become the chancellor of Germany. With Hitler's controlling influence the Nazi Party quickly consolidated its power. He maintained legality throughout the Nazification process. Over the next six years, he transformed Germany into a police state. He began to rearm the military, in violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Hitler engaged in a "diplomatic revolution" by skillfully negotiating with other European countries and publi

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The Einsatzgruppen advanced into the Soviet Union, their task was to kill masses of Jews, and they massacred over one million Jews with guns or mobile killing vans. While the Einsatzgruppen murdered Jews in the Soviet Union, Hitler constructed death camps to efficiently murder enormous numbers of Jews in the rest of Europe. Hitler gave Himmler the task of creating the death camps. Six major camps were built in Poland: Auschwitz, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek, and Treblinka. Trains transported Jews, first from the Polish ghettos, and then from France, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Greece, and Hungary. Everyday gas chambers, crematoriums, and open pits killed thousands of Jews. Himmler's twisted mind made him think this wickedness was acts of greatness.

Those who attempted to rescue Jews and others from the Nazi death sentence did so at a large risk to themselves. For example, Anyone found hiding a Jew was shot or publicly hanged as a warning to others. Sharing resources with those hiding was an additional sacrifice for the rescuer. Even though there were risks, thousands helped. In Denmark, citizens who hid them and helped them to safety saved 7,220 of its 8,000 Jews.

Hitler separated the western part of Poland into Germany according to race principles. He intended that Poles were to become the slaves of Germany and that the Jews were to be congested in the ghettos of Poland's larger cities. This would simplify the transportation to the camps. Nazi authorities told the story that Jews were natural carriers of all types of disease, especially typhus, and that it was necessary to isolate Jews from the Polish community. Jewish neighborhoods were transformed into prisons. The five major ghettos were located in Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, and Lvov.

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