During the Holocaust, six million Jews died at the hands of a despicable man; Adolf Hitler. While many died in the death camps, malnutrition, disease, executions, and medical experimentation were other methods of annihilating the Jews. In 1933, before World War II, approximately nine million Jews lived in Germany. At the end of World War II, six million Jews died. In this article the researcher will attempt to provide accurate accounts of how Adolf Hitler came to power, why he killed innocent people, and where the carnage began. The researcher will attempt to show precisely when the Holocaust began and who was influenced by one man and his followers' belief that they were superior to others. The Jewish people have always been victims in one sense or another; it would seem that every time something went wrong they were the ones who should be held responsible. It seems that the Jews were persecuted for the world's problems even when they had done no wrong. The most terrifying account of Jewish persecution is the Holocaust, which took place from 1933 to 1945. During the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler tried to eliminate all people he deemed inferior to the Germans, namely the Jews, and believed this . it would create a pure Aryan nation that other countries could not match. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler, who was part of the National Socialist Party also known as the Nazi Party, was appointed Chancellor of Germany. It quickly transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a one-party dictatorship based exclusively on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism (Wistrich, Robert, 2003). Hitler wanted a pure Aryan state, a country that in its ideology was a superior race to the center of the map and the invention of the Holocaust. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ashford/Doc?id10046220Rosen, Philip E. (Author). (1997). Holocaust Dictionary: Biography, Geography and Terminology. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ashford/Doc?id=10017932Rubenstein, William D. (Author). (1997). Rescue myth: Why democracies couldn't have saved more Jews from the Nazis. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ashford/Doc?id=10054573Schneider, Gertrude (author). Exile & Destruction: The Fate of Austrian Jews, 1938-1945. Westport, CT, USA: Greenwood Press, 1995. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ashford/Doc?id=5004830 Wistrich, Robert S. (Author). (2003). Hitler and the Holocaust: A Brief History. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ashford/Doc?id=10041326