After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews were consistently persecuted, Hitler’s “final solution”–now known as the Holocaust–came to fruition under the cover of World War II, with mass…

Whenever we hear the name Adolf Hitler, the first thing that comes to mind is his anti-Semitic views that led to the genocide of millions of Jewish people in Europe. He was a dictator, a madman …

Adolf Hitler repeated that slogan over and over. He did so from his first election campaigns in the 1920s until his final appeal to the German people urging them to resist Allied invaders in 1945….

One of the most frequently asked questions about the Holocaust and the Nazi party is whether Adolf Hitler was Jewish or had Jewish ancestors. Though the idea may seem preposterous to some, the question seems to stem from the remote possibility that Hitler’s grandfather was Jewish. Hitler’s father, Alois, was registered as an illegitimate child with no father when born in 1837 and to this day Hitler’s …

Film director Julian Jones of the “Night of the Long Knives” told the Jewish Journal that the 1934 purge “paved the way for the rise of the SS and its leader Heinrich Himmler, who would go on to be…

Get email notification for articles from David B. Green. Published on 11.04.2016. One can’t consider the Holocaust without wondering about the source of Adolf Hitler ’s hatred for the Jews. Although much of his political manifesto, “ Mein Kampf ,” was devoted to explaining that hatred, which was clearly shared by an enthusiastic German nation, the actions taken against Europe’s Jews were so monstrous in both …

Hitler is said to be have been ashamed of his partly Jewish roots. Another explanation links his hatred of Jews to trauma caused by a poison gas attack in the First World War. Yet other theories suggest that Hitler had contracted a venereal disease from a Jewish prostitute.

Hitler and the Nazi regime set up networks of concentration camps before and during World War II to carry out a plan of genocide. The Nazis believed that by annihilating those of Jewish descent and…

The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and ended in 1945 when the Nazis were defeated by the Allied powers. The term Holocaust is derived from the Greek word holokauston, which means sacrifice by fire. It refers to the Nazi persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people and others considered to be inferior to “true” Germans.