Adolf Hitler was the Führer of Nazi Germany and the driving force behind the attempt to exterminate European Jewry. By the end of 1941, Hitler was, almost certainly, committed to a plan to murder all the Jews living in territory, either directly controlled by Germany or in the German sphere of influence. This genocidal plan came to fruition in 1942 and continued until 1945. Initially Hitler used the Nazi activity against the Jews consisted of boycotts and pickets by the SA on Jewish shops. In 1933 Hitler's policies were focused on the discrimination of the mentally ill and other sectors which did not contributed to the Volksgemeinschaft and the Nuremberg Laws removed German citizenship from Jews in 1935. The Nazi Party continued to develop the racist policies focused on anti-semitism. This resulted in the mass murder of Germans, Jews and other foreigners and it is known as the Holocaust.
             One of the main reasons for Hitler's rise to power was that large numbers of Germans had some sympathy with his views. The fact that Jews had played a prominent role in the left-wing revolutions in Germany in the winter of 1918-1919 helped encourage the views that Jews were responsible for Germany's defeat in the First World War. Many German nationalists also associated Jews with communism and believed that world Jews, with its headquarters in Moscow after the 1917 Russian revolution, was plotting to conquer Germany. In reality, the vast majority of German Jews were not communists, but moderate socialists or liberals who supported the Weimar Republic. Jewish financiers were blamed for the severe depression, which hit Germany after 1929.
             Many Germans who visited Germany in the 1930s were impressed by Hitler's achievements. Most agreed that the people, especially the young, seemed proud, keen and unafraid. Hitler had wiped out the shame of the past, particularly the defeat of 1918, and had given back Germany her strength and ...