"Here he stops at nothing, and in his vileness he becomes so gigantic that no one need be surprised if among our people the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew." This statement from Adolf Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, demonstrates his bitter hatred of the Jewish race. Such violent hatred led to the murder of approximately six million Jews under the authority of Adolf Hitler. In Hitler's early life he developed an abhorrence of the Jewish race as he was once prohibited by a Jewish trade union member to continue working as a builder's labourer. He also saw the Jewish people, who had dark hair, dark eyes and dark skin, to be the complete opposite of what he thought the perfect German Aryan man was, a person with blonde hair, blue eyes and rosy bright skin. Before Hitler came to power, life for the Jews in Germany was of a good quality but when he did in 1933 he acted upon his anti-semitic ideas and the Jewish population faced persecution from the Nazis.
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Romania, Germany, Canada, HungaryWhen Hitler consolidated his power in 1933 there were significant turning points in the persecution of the Jews that led to Hitler's so-called "Final solution to the Jewish Problem."
Before Hitler attained absolute power in Germany in 1933, the nature and position of the Jewish population contrasted to what it became when Hitler enforced his anti-Jewish policies in order to create the perfect "master race". Prior to 1933 the Jews had always been in the minority in every country that they lived, but this escalated when the Nazi Party came to power. The Jews were a stateless group of people who had often suffered prejudice and persecution because they were classed as the 'killers of Jesus...