Imagine an entire race being wiped off 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, with glowing awe, he looked out of the government building and witnessed a parade of Nazi troops marching joyfully for their new leader. Hitler cut the night air by declaring: “No power on earth will get me out of here alive.” » Hitler's rise to power had a negative impact on the Jewish population by killing millions of Jews in various cruel and tortuous 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 forced them, without warning, to board a bus they had brought with them. The buses contained dozens of Jews and they were sometimes asked to strip completely to save space. Aware that their lives were at stake, the Jews on board these buses grabbed hold of their loved ones and wished to never let them go. Trains were also a means of transporting Jews to concentration camps. Ambulances pulled up alongside trains when they were stopped and transported sick Jews to hospitals. From there, they were shot or killed by lethal injection. Sometimes they were even taken to the back of the hospital and cremated. The gas chambers were among the causes of the deaths of many Jews. Almost every concentration camp had a gas chamber. They were used to trap a group of Jews into fumigating them with Zyklon-B, a greenish crystalline pellet that releases deadly hydrogen cyanide 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 concentration camps death and forced labor, Hitler's rise to power may have negatively affected the Jewish population. Throughout the period of the Holocaust, millions of innocent lives were lost. Hitler's rise to power greatly affected millions of people around the world in the 1900s. This genocide was one of the most horrific historical events to ever occur, and the resulting destruction will remain forever engraved in memories and will teach the world not to make the same mistakes as before. Works Cited Lace, William W. The Death Camps. California: Lucent Books, 1998. Smith, Patricia. 1933 Hitler comes to power. New York Times from the start. May 18, 2011Crew, David F. The Racial State: Nazi Germany 1933-1939. Oxford University Press. May 192011.