1. Analyze Adolph Hitler’s rise to power and the policies he used to rule Germany.

2. The following statement was taken from a contemporary account of Germany in 1939: "though the fuehrer’s anti-Semitic program furnished the national socialist party in the first instances with a nucleus and a rallying-cry, it was swept into office by two things with which the "Jewish problem" did not have the slightest connection. On the one side were economic distress and the revulsion against Versailles: on the other, chicanery and intrigue. Hitler and his party promised the unhappy Germans a new heaven and a new earth, coupled with the persecution of the Jews. Unfortunately a new heaven and earth cannot be manufactured to order. But a persecution of the Jews can..."

How do you interpret this contemporary account of the persecution of people who are Jewish?