Who attempted genocide during World War 2?

Answer 1

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi PartyHitler HimselfAdolf Hitler was an Austrian-born politician who led the National Socialist German Workers Party . He became Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933 and Führer in 1934. He ruled until 1945. The Nazi Party gained power during Germany's period of crisis after World War I, exploiting effective Propaganda and Hitler's charismatic oratory to gain popularity. Hitler's grandmother was a Jew. Hitler's idea of a perfect person is a blonde haired, blue eyed, muscular Christian. Whats ironic is that Hitler did not fit his perfect person. Nazi BeginningsAdof Hitler is the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). It was also refered to as the German Workers Party (DAP) before the name was changed in 1920. Hitler rapidly established a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich, under which the party gained almost unlimited power. HolocaustNazi ideology stressed the racial purity of the German people and persecuted those it perceived either as race enemies or "life unworthy". This included Jews, Slavs, Roma and homosexuals, along with Jehova's, the mentally and/or physically disabled, socialists, and communists. To carry out these beliefs, the party and the German state which it controlled organized the systemic murder of approximately six million Jews (in what has become known as The Holocaust), and about 5 million other people, mainly Russians, Poles and Roma. thousands of political enemies of the Nazi regime, along with homosexuals, people with disabilities, and religious minorities were also killed.