Abraham, a Jewish prophet, can be credited as the founding father of Judaism. Now, over 4,000 years later, Judaism has expanded across multiple continents, to the point that in 1933 there were over 9 million Jews in Europe alone. However between 1933 and 1945 two out of three European Jews were targeted and killed in an intentional and well-planned mass murder by Hitler and the Nazis, later defined in Raphael Lemkin's book "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe" as genocide. This genocide, now known as the Holocaust, was one of the cruelest and most atrocious events in recorded history. For Hitler and the Nazis to be able to successfully manipulate the entire German population into killing their innocent Jewish neighbors solely because of their religion seems unfathomable. The German Holocaust was an inevitable event in world history, due to the long history of anti-Semitism , of the fictitious widespread propaganda created by the Nazis, and of Hitler's unlimited authority and power over German society. After World War I, David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Clemenceau of France, and Woodrow Wilson of America, known as the "Big Three", created a safeguard to ensure that a repeat of World War I would not happen again by forcing Germany to sign the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. This treaty resulted in Germany losing valuable lands and colonies as well as a reduced army of 100,000 men with no submarines or air force. After Germany signed the treaty, a negative chain reaction followed, with commodity hyperinflation in 1923 and the Great Depression in the late 1920s. This has led to high unemployment rates and an increase in the percentage of Germans living in poverty. Adolf Hitler, an Austrian-born politician, blamed Germany's loss of W... mid-card... one religious group was criticized or hated the most, it was the Jewish faith. This hatred has been deeply rooted in society. Hitler, therefore, conveniently used the Jews as scapegoats to explain the fall of Germany. The end of Germany made citizens want to believe Hitler. They were looking for a quick solution to Germany's problems, which is why many were willing to eliminate the Jews if it meant liberation for Germany. Most Germans allowed themselves to believe in the cruel propaganda and racial and evolutionary theories that Hitler used as justification, to live with their own actions and the reality that Hitler had created for Germany. Since most non-Jews were unwilling to risk their lives to protect Jews from a force they perceived as unstoppable, no one intervened. All this led to the Holocaust, or the systematic mass extermination of 6 million innocent Jews.