Jews, left-wing politicians, and communists were the scapegoats for Germany's crushing loss in World War I. These groups were labeled traitors and hated for “stabbing Germany in the back.” The German Nazi Party's sense of national pride led it to want to "cleanse" Germany and create a "pure German people". This led them to force this group of people into concentration camps where many died. Although Allied forces worked to free those held in concentration camps and extermination camps during World War II, they could have done more to end the murders and persecutions carried out by the Nazis. Hitler began blaming the Jewish people and other potential threats. his power, at the end of the First World War, when the German population was not prepared for the loss and had nothing to reproach him for. In 1934, Adolf Hitler rose to power as Führer of Germany. With the new party and its leader in power, Jews began to feel isolated. Soon the Nuremberg Laws were announced. This meant that Jews had virtually no rights and could not mix with the pure German population. Then, in 1939, after Germany successfully invaded Poland, the “New Order” was implemented with the goal of eliminating all Jews. The Nazis began forcing Jews into designated areas called ghettos. These ghettos were not only a place to stay for the Jewish population, but were also used as a starting point from which Jews were then placed in concentration and death camps. When placed in these camps, many were killed upon entering the camps by gas chambers, ovens or bullets. Some did not even make it to the camps, but were shot and thrown into mass graves by the German mobile squadron called the Einsatzgruppen. Unfortunately, many of those sent...... middle of paper ...... are doing tours, but they have had to get close to the bodies and many have had to provide proper burials for those bodies. Footage shows Germans and Austrians digging graves for Jewish bodies to be buried. From becoming Hitler's scapegoat to the mass genocide known as the Holocaust, the Jewish people were unfairly blamed and punished. Hitler's "pure race" did not include the Jewish race, they were looked down upon for taking jobs in banking and accounting, and blamed for problems they were not responsible for. More should have been done to stop Nazi operations in concentration camps. Although many Nazi leaders and those involved in mass genocide, such as the Einsatzgruppen, were rightly persecuted for their war crimes, nothing can ever compensate for the millions of innocent people lost in the mass killing machine of Nazi Germany..