Through out history the Jewish people have been abused, blamed, stolen from, and even put to death because of their religion. Even in the Middle Ages they were forced to wear marks on their clothing, identifying them as Jews. Myths emerged of Jews stealing Christian children because they needed their blood for their religious rituals. The period of time, 1933 to 1945, which is known as the holocaust, or shoah in Hebrew, saw many autocracies committed. Not only against the Jewish population, but also against any minority group that was not favored of the Nazi regime. Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist came into power the year 1933, but he had a political history reaching farther back than that. Germany was in economical crisis that had resulted from their loss in the First World War, and a young Hitler was the head of the NSDAP (National Socialist Party of German Workers.) By the 1920's the NSDAP was spreading anti-Semitism feelings. While economical situations grew worse, the party's popularity rose among the working class. At this stage the National Socialists down played their anti-Semitism views. The Nazis were elected in 1933 and the Nuremberg
Laws were immediately introduced. These laws stripped Germany's Jewish population of many of the basic rights as citizens of that county. Jews were not allowed to marry non-Jews and were banned from many professions. Jews were to mark all their clothing with the Star of David so that any one that saw them would know that they were to be treated as "sub-humans". On November 6, 1938, a German ambassador was murdered while in France by a young Jewish boy whose family had been deported from Germany. This was the excuse that the Nazis needed to make war on the Jews. Synagogues were burned to the ground, along wi ...