"A tiny group of extreme nationalists and anti-Semites who saw their role as trying to win over German workers from the internationalist Social Democratic Party and, in the aftermath of defeat and revolution, to persuade people that Jews were primarily responsible for Germany's plight."

Hitler joined the DAP in 1919 in Munich.

By 1920 the DAP had been changed to the NSDAP (Nazi party for short.) In 1921 Hitler became the parties leader or in Germany, Fuhrer. Hitler also added a paramilitary squad, the Sturmabteilung, that at its height contained roughly 400,000 men, 4 times the size of the German army.

The main reason why Hitler was able to take control so well was due to his charisma.

Joseph joined the party in 1929 as the parties new propaganda chief. He took advantage of the resentments felt by the German people during the depression which was a side effect of the war. He had a belief that propaganda was not meant to stir emotions and thought but to stop them. Joseph was an odd member of the Nazi party as he had a club foot and was not the ideal Aryan.

A pact that established Italy, Germany and Japan as the three Axis powers signed on September 27, 1940

Germany and the Nazis had many other allies, though these were considered minor allies.

Some included: Hungary, Finland, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia

Italy was as much a nuisance it was helpful to Hitler.

Hitler had no respect for Mussolini.

Italy's failed invasion of Greece delayed Germany's invasion of Russia by four weeks as Germany turned to its aid.

Japan refused to attack Russia.

this is the move that starts World War II

The German "Deutsches Afrikakorps" was the original German expeditionary force in Libya and Egypt during the North African Campaign of World War II. 

It was not only Jewish people who suffered; while Jewish peoples wore the yellow Star of David, other coloured stars differentiated other types of prisoners. Red triangle - Political Prisoners. Pink triangle - Homosexuals. Purple triangle - Jehovah's Witnesses (detained for refusing to serve in the army). Green triangle - Common Criminals. Others included Poles, Czechs, Greeks, Serbs, Ukrainians, Gypsies, the physically and mentally handicapped, and trade unionists.

It is estimated that these "others" amount to nearly 5 million deaths over the duration of the Holocaust.

Krystalnacht: Night of Broken Glass. November 9, 1938: using the pretence of revenge for the assassination of a minor German foreign minister in Paris, Nazi SA Stormtroopers were ecouraged to begin street violence against Jewish shops, synagogues, and institutions. In all, 200 synagogues were burned, homes were destroyed with axes and sledgehammers, people were thrown from windows into the street, kicked to death, beaten with fists and truncheons, stabbed, and shot. Torah scrolls, and Jewish works of history and philosophy were burned. The violence left 100 dead.

As Germany expanded, more Jews came under the rule of Hitler’s Empire (the Third Reich) and he wanted to concentrate them. He did so by putting them in ghettos - large areas that were filled with many Jewish people and guarded by German soldiers.

Gas chambers were developed in 1939, as Nazi soldiers struggled with shooting women and children, and death by gas was considered a more humane way of killing. It was first designed to carry out the Nazi policy of 'unworthy life,' meaning those in mental hospitals.The first gassing occurred on October 15, 1939 on a group of Polish mental patients.

In Mein Kampf, Hitler stated that "rational anti-Semitism must lead to a systematic legal opposition and elimination of the special privileges which Jews hold... Its final objective must unswervingly be the removal of the Jews altogether."

August 22, 1939: Hitler authorized his commanders, with these infamous words, to kill "without pity or mercy, all men, women, and children of Polish descent or language. Only in this way can we obtain the living space [lebensraum] we need".

Followed Hitler's line of thinking: "All Poles will disappear from the world.... It is essential that the great German people should consider it as its major task to destroy all Poles." All Poles suffered during the Holocaust, Jewish and non-Jewish.

After liberation, many Jewish survivors feared to return to their former homes because of the anti- Semitism that persisted in parts of Europe and the trauma they had suffered. Tens of thousands of homeless Holocaust survivors migrated westward to other European territories liberated by the western Allies. Some Jewish refugees in Europe emigrated as displaced persons or refugees to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, western Europe, Mexico, South America, and South Africa.

The British restricted immigration to Palestine, but refugees formed their own organizations, and many laboured for the establishment of an independent Jewish state in Palestine.With the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948, Jewish displaced persons and refugees began streaming into the new sovereign state.

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The end of Hitler's reign was inevitable, thus causing him and his longtime mistress, Eva Braun, to commit suicide. In the Führer's underground bunker, they ingested cyanide, and instructed Hitler's military aid and staff members to burn their bodies. After the Soviets invaded the bunker, they stole the bodies and performed an autopsy. No visible gunshot wounds existed, though part of Hitler's cranium was missing. The Russians had already buried bodies believed to have belonged to Hitler and Braun, but after A meticulous comparison of Hitler's dental records and the teeth found on the corpse, The Soviets were convinced that they had found the body of the Führer.

Hitler was determined to remain in Berlin until the very end; his staff attempted to convince him to escape to the mountains, but he refused. Göring took this opportunity to request leadership of the Reich, thus committing 'high treason' according to Hitler. On April 28, news came that Himmler had sought negotiations with the Allies and had even offered to surrender German armies in the west to Eisenhower. That night, Hitler and Braun had a hasty marriage. By April 29, the Soviets were a mile away from the Führer's bunker. Hitler and his wife enjoyed a last meal before returning to the bunker, alone. Their military aides later entered to find Hitler dead and bleeding from a gunshot, while Braun has died from cyanide poisoning. Their bodies were carried to the roof of the Chancellery garden and burned repetitively. Their ashes were buried in a shell crater. It is rumoured that the Soviets found these ashes, but no one knows for sure.