In the twentieth century, the most well known abuse of power seen by a government was done by the German Nazi’s. This group of evil individuals was led by Adolf Hitler. Hitler lead the German’s during World War II and was the reason for the Holocaust. Before World War II, during the Great Depression, the German’s were in massive debt and the economy was rapidly failing. At this time Hitler stepped up and convinced many German’s that the Jewish people were the reasoning behind all of their failures. He decided to assimilate all the Jews they could find across Europe during the war and put them into concentration camps. Millions died in these camps from starvation, being shot, burned, gassed and more. What happened to these people was truly horrific and unimaginable. Overall, I would consider Adolf Hitler to have succeeded in his plan. He convinced the German people that Jewish people did not belong and then proceeded to kill them off. In the end he was stopped by the allied forces at the end of the war when they took back their land and defeated the German’s. The few survivors still in the concentration camps were liberated but had such an awful reputation that no country was willing to accept them. Adolf should never have been given power in the first place since his thoughts were irrational. He took complete control over an entire group of people and his country, turning Germany into a dictatorship.
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