Immediately on coming to power in 1933, Adolph Hitler’s Law began to deprive German Jews regularly of all their rights of citizenship. Their rights were finally taken away; in 1935 by the Nuremberg Laws. At the same time a brutal, crude, Anti-Semitism drove more than two hundred and fifty thousand Jews, into exile. In every town and village, public slogans declared: “The Jew is our misfortune”, “ Jews not wanted here”. Also between 1937 and 1939, Jews were forced from Germany’s economic life: the Nazis either seized Jewish business and properties outright or forced Jews to sell them at bargain prices. Threats against Jews were the stock-in-trade of Nazism. So too was open violence, and the destruction of hundreds of synagogues. And on January 1939, six years after the Nazis had come to power, Hitler declared publicly that in the event of a war, the results will not be victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe. Within a few weeks of the German invasion of Poland on September 1939, many hundreds of Jews had been murdered in the streets of a dozen towns, and thousands more had been savagely beaten up throughout German occupied Poland. Yet an even worse fate had been planed for the two million Polish Jews who were now under German rule. According to The Times, the Germans intended to deport more than a million Jews into a concentration area. These Jews would be brought from every country; then put under German rule: all one hundred eighty thousand Jews who were still living in Germany, all sixty five thousand from Austria, all seventy thousand from Czech, and all four hundred fifty thousand from the western province of Poland now taken over by Germany. In addition, nearly one in a half million Jews from Poland itself would be uprooted from their homes, and sent to this area.

The methods of murder were the same in all the killing centers, which were operated by the S.S. The victims arrived in railroad freight cars and passenger trains. On arrival, men were separated from women and children. Prisoners were forced to hundreds and hand over all valuables. They were driven naked into the gas chambers, which were disguised as shower rooms, and either carbon monoxide or Zyklon B (a form of crystalline prussic acid, also used as an insecticide in some camps) was used to suffocate them. Germans carried out organized murder activities with the active help of local collaborators in many countries. However there were instances of organized resistance. One of the most famous was Raoul Walle

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