at the largest beer hall in Munich, Hitler was going to try to overthrow the government in one shot. The attempt failed and landed him and Rudolf Hess in jail for 8 months for treason. In prison Hitler wrote a book which he wanted to call, Four and a half years of struggle against lies, stupidity and cowardice but changed it to Mein Kampf (my struggle). This book would become the bible to the nazi faith. (“when Hitler came to power every couple would receive a copy of his book, children would get it on their birthdays as gifts... Never in the history of literature has so bad a book be bought by so many and read by so few.”) Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 30 1933 and by March had full control of all of Germany. He called it the third Reich (which means empire). The First Reich was the Holy Roman Empire, the second was the empire founded by Otto Von Bismarck and the third was Hitler's which was suppose to last for a thousand years. Hitler always had a hate for the Jews, this was present at the formation of the Nazi party in 1919, it was present in Mein Kampf and it finally really effected the Jews in September 1935 with the creation of the Nuremberg laws. They were laws modeled after the Jim Crow laws and they stripped the Jews of civil liberties and rights.. They contained rules such as “. Marriages between Jews and nationals of German or kindred blood are forbidden...Jews are forbidden to hoist the Reich and national flag and to present the colors of the Reich....”. When Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 and when WWII broke out there was a question that confronted Hitler “what to do with the Jews?”. The answer came in 1933 with the creation of the first concentration camp, DachauPrior to WWII there were literally hundreds of camps in Germany for Communists, democrats, socialists, political criminals, homosexuals and, of course, Jews. Death rates were so high from malnutrition and disease....
