Thursday the 24th May 2001
Dear Holocaust Survivor,
Recently I have been studying the Nazi persecution and mass systematic murder of the Jewish people.
Hitler first rose to power in an sly and evil way, his book “Mein Kampf” which he wrote while in prison, displayed his racist and sick views on the Jews and all types of other minorities. In times of extreme desperation, in this case the Wall Street crash and most Germans losing their money, people turn to extremes. The extremes at this time were the Nazi party and the Communists. Hitler was elected Chancellor, (the equivalent to our Prime Minister) and shortly after the Reichstag was mysteriously burnt down. A Communist was found near by with a box of matches, there is no proof so we shall never know but many say this was a set up by Hitler, the Communist also had learning difficulties.
Hitler now had a real reason to be able to get rid of the Communists, he banned all other parties as a result. This is where his Dictatorship began because there was no choice of who ran the country mainly because there were no other parties to vote for but secondly because of Hitler’s Nazi Army who few dared appose.
