The Jewish Holocaust In 1933, darkness fell over Germany. The
Nazi Party had come to power in a nation that for years had been
the scene of street brawls, rallies filled with hatred, racist
attacks and loud calls for war. Hitler, the Nazis' leader, had
won the highest vote in the election and been declared
chancellor. He was soon to become Germany's undisputed dictator.
The 13 difficult years from 1933 to 1945 brought ever-increasing
savagery. The Nazis began by killing their political opponents,
then set about murdering all those innocent handicapped and the
mentally ill, whom they saw as being "harmful" according to
their twisted theories of eugenics. They began oppressing and
torturing Jews and other minorities living in Germany and then,
in 1939, turned it into mass killings. The Nazis killed 11
million people in their terrible concentration camps, which
turned into genocide machines where technology was
systematically employed to sadistically murder babies, the
elderly and the sick. Throughout the World