On April 11, 1932, "HITLER LOSES TO HINDENBURG BY 6,000,000" and "84-Year-Old President Will Sit Seven More Years" was the headline in the Albany Evening News (qtd .in “Adolf Hitler Loses”) Less than a year later, on January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party in Germany, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. Hitler was not considered a major threat by the president. It was actually thought to be a boon to the German government. The aristocratic ruling class wanted to get rid of the republic and return to the glorious days of Germany, the days of the Kaiser. Hindenburg and Hitler's vice-chancellor, Franz von Papen, thought that Hitler would be the perfect solution to destroy the republic. Many companies and organizations had their own opinion about Hitler, and the German army even placed bets on how he would run his office. They all had a common mistake: they underestimated Adolf Hitler. During the next four years Hitler was enormously successful. In 1935 it abandoned the Treaty of Versailles (signed at the end of the First World War). He began building an army five times larger than allowed, and Nazism expanded. One of the main instruments of the Nazi propaganda assault was the Nazi weekly newspaper. At the bottom of the newspaper it read “The Jews are our misfortune” (The Holocaust: An Introductory History). The Nazis quickly progressed to transform the power they had over the people into totalitarianism. By the end of 1934, Hitler was in total control of Germany and his war against the Jews was more effective than ever. In 1939, Germany entered Poland, starting the Second World War. Shortly thereafter, the Nazis began moving Jews into crowded “ghettos” that isolated them from society… at the heart of the paper… Belgian propaganda used against Germany in 1914 – and are therefore open to scrutiny. Anti-Semitic deniers go further and suggest that the extermination facilities were purposely constructed by Jewish interests, as a means of garnering world sympathy. (Alpha History: Holocaust Denial) Although people have denied many facts about the Holocaust, no one has ever claimed that the concentration camps were never real. In fact, it would be impossible to say otherwise with all the evidence showing that the concentration camps were real. But people who lived through the Holocaust feel offended and upset when what they suffered is questioned by people who are simply following their intuition. Those who oppose the Holocaust have very little evidence to support their accusations. The accusations are not the reinterpretation of known facts but the denial of known facts.
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