Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱It was in July of 1921 that Adolf Hitler took over the leadership of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, also known as the Nazi Party. The Nazi Party was made up of a very small number of nationalists who were out to persuade the public that it was the Jews who were the main reason for Germany’s problems and woes at the time, rather than the consequences of World War I and the punitive and divisive conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. Before Hitler came to power, Jewish and German citizens had lived and worked side by side, though it did not take long for Hitler to change this once he became Reich Chancellor in 1934. Thirteen years after Hitler became their leader, the Nazi Party had become the largest party in Germany. Propaganda leaflets were posted through doors suggesting that Jews were filth – (are we not seeing this now with the way our refugees and migrants are portrayed in the media, that they are to blame for all our woes?) – and a bill was passed, the so-called Nuremberg Laws, that stripped Jews of German citizenship and legislated against the marriage between ...