During the Holocaust, six million Jews died at the hands of one despicable man; Adolf Hitler. While many perished in the extermination camps, malnutrition, disease, executions, and medical experimentation were other methods of annihilating the Jews. In 1933, before World War II, approximately nine million Jews lived in Germany. By the end of World War II, six million Jews were dead. In this article, the researcher will attempt to accurately report how Adolf Hitler came to power, why he killed innocent people, and where the carnage began. The researcher will attempt to show precisely when the Holocaust began and who was affected by the belief of one man and his followers that they were superior to others. The Jewish people have always been victims in one sense or another; it seemed that every time something went wrong, they were the ones who had to be held accountable. It seems that the Jews were persecuted for the problems of the world, even though they committed no wrongdoing. The most horrific account of the persecution of the Jews is that of the Holocaust, which took place from 1933 to 1945. During the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler sought to eliminate all those he considered inferior to the Germans, namely the Jews, and believed that in doing so he would create a pure Aryan nation that other countries could not match. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler, who was part of the National Socialist Party, also known as the Nazi Party, was appointed Chancellor of Germany. He quickly transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a one-party dictatorship based solely on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism (Wistrich, Robert, 2003). Hitler yearned for a pure Aryan state, a country that in his ideology would be a superior race to the medium of paper and the invention of the Holocaust. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ashford/Doc?id10046220 Rosen, Philip E. (Author). (1997). Dictionary of the Holocaust: biography, geography and terminology. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ashford/Doc?id=10017932Rubenstein, William D. (Author). (1997). Rescue myth: Why democracies couldn't have saved more Jews from the Nazis. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ashford/Doc?id=10054573Schneider, Gertrude (Author). Exile and destruction: the fate of Austrian Jews, 1938-1945. Westport, CT, USA: Greenwood Press, 1995. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ashford/Doc?id=5004830 Wistrich, Robert S. (Author). (2003). Hitler and the Holocaust: A Brief History. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ashford/Doc?id=10041326