When Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933 no one would have believed
it possible that twelve years later he would become one of the most infamous
people of all time. In those twelve years, he turned one of the most civilised
nations in the world into one of the most barbarous of all time. By the time
his time in power had come to an end, he had contributed to the deaths of over
fifty million people during the Second World War; Germany was destroyed and
millions of people all around the world had been pulled into the most ferocious
war history had ever seen. In addition to all of this, he had created a racial
state in which all deemed unfit to live there were either persecuted, enslaved
or simply murdered. Among the many victims of Nazi persecution, most tragically
of all, Hitler made it his aim to murder every Jewish person within his territory.
Men, women and children, all were to be killed. He succeeded in killing over
two thirds of them. Six million Jews were murdered. This is what we call the
Holocaust.
Girls
posing in Eisiskes, Lithuania. A Year after this photograph was taken, all the
Jews in this village were killed by the Einsatzgruppen
