Hitler's On The Night Of Long Knives

World War I left Germany vulnerable and leaderless. Germany struggled economically, like any other country in the world, especially hard. They did not just lose the war; they lost territory, military, money, and hope. Paul von Hindenburg, president of Germany appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor on January 30, 1933 along with the National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazis. Germany did not stay a democracy for long. The Enabling Act permitted one cabinet, the Nazi Party, to be in place for four years, giving Hitler full dictatorship. In 1936 Germany hosted the Worldwide Summer Olympics in Berlin. Hitler saw this as the perfect time for propaganda to show the world how much better Germany was compared to other countries. Hitler believed
On the Night of Long Knives Hitler eliminated all who disagree with his ideas. Not only did he eliminate his rivals, but he eliminated those who did not meet his standards. Whether they were physical, spiritual, or political. The night of November 9, 1938, also known as The Night of Broken Glass, was an unplanned attack on the Jews after the killing of a German officer. Jews were targeted and many synagogues, Jewish businesses, homes, schools, and hospitals were burned or ransacked. According to the United States Holocaust memorial Museum, this night was called the Night of Broken Glass for the shattered glass from business windows that covered the streets. After this night, 30,000 Jews were taken to camps and
This was seen as a way to massacre the Jewish people out of German society. Jews were forced into ghettos. Ghettos were small housing areas made specifically for Jews. In these ghettos starvation, disease, and suffering invaded the streets. Living conditions in the ghettos were abominable. Families were crammed into rooms and left with little to nothing. Mobile killing squads, called Einsatzgruppen, killed entire communities of Jews, mainly by gunshot or gas vans. Another way of extermination of Jews was concentration camps. Throughout the 1940’s, when World War II started, Einsatzgruppen went into the ghettos and took thousands of Jews. From there they went to one of the six death camps in territory of Poland; including Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Majdanek. The largest being Auschwitz-Birkenau with killing more than one million Jews during World War II. Not everyone sent to death camps were exterminated. Those fit enough for cruel work became slave laborers. Others who were weak, young, old, female, retarded, or disabled were sent to the gas chambers to die. Any Jews in hiding were shot on