The Holocaust didn’t begin with Adolf Hitler. Way before the Holocaust there was evidence of hostility toward the Jews (History.Web). In 1918, like many anti-Semites in Germany, Hitler blamed the Jews for the country’s defeat. Jews weren’t Hitler’s only targets. If you spoke against Hitler or the Nazis party you were risking yourself to be hung. People that lived in Europe lived in fear. On September 1, 1939 German troops were going to thrash the Jews (Gluck. 54). The German army occupied the western half of Poland. German police forced tens of thousands of Jews out of their homes and into ghettoes, giving the Jews properties to the Germans. The Jews ghettoes in Poland were like captive city-states, surrounded by high walls and barbed wire (History.Web). The ghettoes had a disease, the disease is called Typhus, and the disease was from the wide-spread unemployment, poverty and hunger, and overpopulation. In the beginning of the fall of 1939, the Nazis picked around 70,000 Germans that other had mental illnesses or disabilities to be killed by a gas called Euthanasia program (Gluck.55). In June 1941, Germany planned to create a colony with the Soviet Union and invaded. Operation Barbarossa involved three million troops and more than 3,000 tanks. Germany had control over more than half of Europe as well as part of the Soviet Union (Gluck.55). The war with Britain and Germany, there was air raids going over London and other cities from August 1940. “The Blitz” was nicknamed for the raids. The US began debating whether to support Britain in the war, after the German occupation of France. In Japan on December 7, 1941, an ally of Germany attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Three days later from the day the US declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy declared war on the US (Gluck.55). Girls 10 through 14 were taught Physical Fitness and home making skills. Boys starting at age 10 joined the Jungvolk (Hitler youth) to develop skills