The RISE OF NAZI GERMANY
"I don't have exactly the right words to describe the panic that existed among these running people. The screams and the cries of the children, the women, the terrible panic that seized the population."
- Leah Hammerstein, describing the bombing of Warsaw during an interview, 1996
- Leah Hammerstein, describing the bombing of Warsaw during an interview, 1996
In 1919, Adolf Hitler created the National Socialist German Workers' Party, more commonly known as the Nazi Party. Hitler ran for chancellor of Germany in 1933. He promised the people, that he would bring Germany back to its former glory and improve its economy. Hitler won the election. After the former president died, Hitler 'suspended' the elections and gained dictatorship. Soon, Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, Austria and in 1939, Poland, which officially started World War II. After the invasion, Britain and France declared war on the Nazis and two years later the USSR and the United States did the same. In Germany and its occupied territories, thousands of concentration camps were built, where the Nazi experiments later took place.
"By its decision to carry out the political and moral cleansing of our public life, the Government is creating and securing the conditions for a really deep and inner religious life."
- Adolf Hitler, in a speech before passing the Enabling Act of 1933, March 23, 1933
- Adolf Hitler, in a speech before passing the Enabling Act of 1933, March 23, 1933