Since the Second World War the word Holocaust describes the murder and imprisonment in ghettos, concentration and extermination camps of over six million Jews by Nazi Germany under the leader of Adolf Hitler. The Holocaust was the systematic mass murder of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The Holocaust destroyed society by killing more than 6 million Jews, leaving behind thousands of people in physical and mental pain and negatively impacting our society today. The German Depression after World War I was the opportunity Adolf Hitler had been waiting for. He and the National Socialist German Workers' Party had a good chance of coming to power. With a lot of propaganda and Hitler's skill as an orator, he won the 1933 election and became Chancellor of Germany. He used power to remove all opposition to himself and the Nazi Party step by step. This was the beginning of Nazi Germany. After Hitler's election, he and his Nazi Party instituted the examination of all people they deemed inferior, such as gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the handicapped. Hitler wanted to create a “pure” race. He called them the Aryans. He had a clear idea of ​​what Aryan's should look like. Things like skin tone, hair color (blond), eye color (blue), and even skull shape lead to the "perfect German".iiHitler especially hated Jews. During the 1933 elections he blamed them for Germany's bad economy. He said they were ruining the racial purity of Germany. After Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany, the life of German Jews changed a lot. They were publicly discriminated against. Many Jews lost their jobs. Since April 1933 they... half the paper... wanted to be burned. The previously buried bodies were dug up and burned. The ash was then buried and grass was planted over the graves to hide them. In some camps, prisoners were forced to march to the Baltic Sea, where they drowned. The Nazis failed to hide the crime committed over the years. In 1944 the Allied forces entered the first camps. They brought food and water for the prisoners, but even after the camps were discovered, thousands more died as a result of the years they spent in concentration and extermination camps.xvii Two hundred and fifty thousand Holocaust survivors were classified as Displaced Persons (DPs). Most of them had no home to return to, so they remained in special camps set up by Allied troops. The special camps were not a permanent solution. Holocaust survivors were tempted to resettle in several countries.