The Free Corps
The Free Corps was a paramilitary organization composed of war veterans who came together to fight the growing Communist people which were starting to take over Germany. The Free Corps crushed this group. Its members formed the Nazi "brown-shirts" which served as the Nazi party's army.
Hitler and the Nazi group
Soon after the war, Hitler was recruited to join a military intelligence unit, and he was assigned to keep records on the German Worker's Party. It was made up of only a handful of members. He saw this as an opportunity to reach his political standards. His growing hatred towards the Jews became part of the organization's political platform. Hitler built up the organization. Advertising for the groups meetings appeared in anti-Semitic newspapers. Through word of mouth, donations poured into the party's coffers, and subsequent mass meetings attracted hundreds of Germans eager to hear the young, forceful and hypnotic leader. With the assistance of party staff, Hitler came up with a party program consisting of twenty-five points. This idea was presented at a public meeting on February 24, 1920, with over 2,000 followers. He blamed the Jews and they became the main target of his speeches. Among the 25 points were revoking the Versailles Treaty, confiscating war profits, taking and expanding land without compensation for use by the state, taking away civil rights for Jews, and expelling those Jews who had emigrated into Germany after the war began. The the next day, his requirements were published in the anti-Semitic. Soon after, treatment of the Jews was a major theme of Hitler's , and the increasing blaming of the Jews for inflation, political instability, unemployment, and the humiliation in the war, found an eager audience. Jews were accused of "internationalism" by Hitler. The name of the party was changed to the National Socialist German Worker's party, and the red flag with the swastika was adopted as the group symbol. A local newspaper was on the verge of bankruptcy, and Hitler raised funds to buy it for the group. The Nazi party began drawing thousands of new members, many of them were victims of the hyper-inflation and blamed the Jews for this trouble.
The Holocaust
In 1942, trainload after trainload of Jewish men, women, and
children were transported from countries all over Europe to Auschwitz, Treblinka, and four other major killing centers in German occupied Poland. By the end of the year, about 4 million Jews were dead. The Germans however, didn't kill only Jewish people. They also killed the physically and mantally handicapped, Gypsies, Roman Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. During World War II (1939–1945), the Germans killed or caused the deaths of up to 6 million Jews. Hundreds of Jewish communities in Europe, some hundreds of years old, completely disappeared forever. The postwar writers dubbed the murders of the European Jews as the “Holocaust.” Hundreds of years of religious prejudice against Jews in Christian Europe, aided by modern political anti-semitism developed a mixture of nationalism, financial insecurity, fear of communism, and so called race science, made up the Holocaust. Hitler and other Nazi Army regarded Jews as a dangerous “race” who threatened the purity and strength of the "perfect Aryan race.”
children were transported from countries all over Europe to Auschwitz, Treblinka, and four other major killing centers in German occupied Poland. By the end of the year, about 4 million Jews were dead. The Germans however, didn't kill only Jewish people. They also killed the physically and mantally handicapped, Gypsies, Roman Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. During World War II (1939–1945), the Germans killed or caused the deaths of up to 6 million Jews. Hundreds of Jewish communities in Europe, some hundreds of years old, completely disappeared forever. The postwar writers dubbed the murders of the European Jews as the “Holocaust.” Hundreds of years of religious prejudice against Jews in Christian Europe, aided by modern political anti-semitism developed a mixture of nationalism, financial insecurity, fear of communism, and so called race science, made up the Holocaust. Hitler and other Nazi Army regarded Jews as a dangerous “race” who threatened the purity and strength of the "perfect Aryan race.”