Germany's defeat in World War One [WWI] led to antisemitism. Germany suffered economically paying war reparations. With the rise of the working class, a political upturn occurred and the new political group, the Nazi Party, rose to power. In 1933, Chancellor Adolf Hitler of the Nazi Party won the German election. He and the Nazi leaders blamed Jews for Germany's problems.2 In response, antisemitism or the hate and prejudice against Jews occurred.2 That same year, the Holocaust began as Hitler and the Nazi government passed discriminatory laws against Jews.2 The state organized systematic violence to punish the Jews, to eliminate them from the German economy, and to make them suffer.2 Jews could no longer make a living and were forced to live in inhumane conditions.2 In 1939, the Nazi leaders passed a policy to remove Jews from German-controlled territory to be placed in a concentrated area for permanent removal".1 

M. Swain