ake Europe think he was done seizing other “weaker” countries. However, Hitler took Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Using the same tactics, Hitler went around the Maginot line and took France. While some countries were falling victim to Hitler’s attacks, some decided it would be easier to side with him. Hungary and Romania joined with Germany in 1940, Bulgaria joined in 1942 and Spain let Hitler use its ports. Hitler, remembering that the Soviet Union had killed most of its army generals in the Great Purges, decided it would be worth the risk of a two front war to obtain the Soviet’s rich farm lands and oil deposits. And masked by Mussolini’s attacks, Germany crossed the border and marched into the Soviet Union in June of 1941. Adolf Hitler was very anti-Semitic and wrote Mein Kampf while he was in jail. It detailed his beliefs that the “Aryan” race was far superior to the “inferior races,” such as Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, the physically and mentally disabled, and the Aryans were destined to rule them. He blamed the Jews for all the economic troubles and started persecuting them. It became practiced so much that concentration camps were set up for the inferior races to be sent to. At the concentration camps, people suffered terrible deaths. If they were lucky enough to live through the mass executions in gas chambers, being buried in mass graves, and being executed; then they were forced to work for the Germans(Deichmann 54). When working for the Germans the prisoners were fed very little and many died of sickness or starvation. If the dead bodies were not thrown into a community burial grave, then they were burned in furnaces. These camps were found all over Europe, in Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland, as well as other countries. There were about 12 million deaths with 6 million being political prisoners, the physically and mentally disabled, Gypsies, and...
