Adolf Hitler came to power on 28 February 1933 (Rossel). He came to power with incendiary speeches and inspiring hope in the defeated Germans. He built a system to empower the German people and allow them to prosper in the aftermath of the Great Depression (Noakes). Using keen acumen and decisive moves, he managed to transform Germany into a war machine aimed at creating an Aryan utopian society, to the detriment of all inferior races, especially the Jews ("The period between 1933 and 1939"). At that time Germany was a defeated country. They had recently suffered several humiliating defeats in World War I, and the Germans no longer had the pride they had once celebrated (Laurita). Augmented by the fact that the Great Depression had devastated the country and left many in a state of poverty and impoverishment, the Germans were desperate. Furthermore, Germany was currently a country without any source of stability and without a generally supported constitution. When Hitler promised a utopian society full of hope and in which Germans would be exalted as a superior race, Germans listened and obeyed his every word (Noakes). Hitler fed on the desperation and desperation of these German people to create a society driven by fear; this state of piety allowed Hitler to convince the Germans that he could offer a better future. This society, in which the Germans would be the conquerors of the world and the leaders of every aspect of society, would be a society in which only German Aryans would thrive. , Hitler told the masses (Noakes). To have an uncontaminated society it was essential to eradicate those who could poison this wonderful utopia and thus crush the German dream. The Jews and other inferior races, Hitler told the population, were the c......middle of paper......pr. 2011. .Laurita, Paula. "History of the Holocaust - Free Suite101 course." Suite101.com: Online magazine and writers' network. Suite 101 Courses. Network. April 15, 2011. .Noakes, Jeremy. "BBC - History - World Wars: The Rise of Adolf Hitler." BBC - Home page. BBC. Network. April 18, 2011. "The period between 1933 and 1939." http://www.thinkquest.org. Oracle ThinkQuest. Network. April 15, 2011. Rossel, Seymour. "Hitler's Rise to Power." House Rossel. Rabbi Seymour Rossel. Network. April 18, 2011. .Wiesel, Elie and Marion Wiesel. Night. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. Print.