World War II Primary Sources | The Human Cost

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German leader Adolf Hitler was a staunch anti-Semite—he harbored an intense hatred for Jewish people. He and his Nazi Party (pronounced "NOHT-see"; taken from the full German name of the National Socialist German Workers' Party) blamed Germany's post-World War I (after 1918) political and economic woes on the Jews. After becoming chancellor (supreme leader)...