Imagine an entire race being wiped out from the face of the earth because of one person's hatred of that race. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. That same night, in glittering admiration, he looked out of the government building and witnessed a parade of Nazi troops marching with joy for their new leader. Hitler pierced the night air by declaring, “No power on earth will let me out of here alive.” Hitler's rise to power negatively affected the Jewish population by killing millions of Jews in various cruel and torturous ways, having a Nazi army under his belt, and treating the Jewish community as if they were scum under his shoes. times when the Gestapo entered the homes of Jewish families and, without warning, forced them to board a bus that they took with them. The buses contained dozens of Jews, and they were sometimes told to strip naked in order to save space. Knowing their lives were at stake, the Jews on those buses grabbed their loved ones and wished to never let them go. Trains were also a means of transporting Jews to concentration camps. Ambulances stopped along the side of trains while they were stopped and transported sick Jews to the hospital. From there they were killed with a gunshot or lethal injection. Sometimes they were even taken to the back of the hospital and cremated. The gas chambers were one of the causes of death of many Jews. Almost every concentration camp had a gas chamber. They were used to trap a group of Jews to be fumigated with Zyklon-B, which is a greenish crystalline pellet that releases lethal hydrogen cyanide gas when exposed to air. On September 3, 1941, a former ...... middle of paper ......y in the palm of his hands, treating Jews and many other types of people with hatred and disrespect, and creating death camps and forced labor, Hitler's rise to power was able to negatively affect the Jewish population. Throughout the Holocaust, millions of innocent lives were lost. Hitler's rise to power greatly affected millions of people around the world in 1900. This genocide was one of the most horrific historical events to ever happen and the destruction that was caused will be remembered forever and will teach the world not to commit the same mistakes made before. Works Cited Lace, William W. The Death Camps. California: Lucent Books, 1998. Smith, Patricia. 1933 Hitler comes to power. The New York Times in advance. May 18, 2011Crew, David F. The Racial State: Nazi Germany 1933-1939. Oxford University Press. May 19th2011.