WWII was Hitler's War War to Exterminate the Jews.
History is meaningless without recognition of that fact.
At the time of Hitler's rise to power, the German Weimar Republic in many ways resembled the U.S. today.
Widespread loss of values and morals, child prostitution, "New Age" cults, homosexuality so widespread as to be organized into "political movements".
Added to this mix, unlike our present U.S. society, was a Communist Party with membership of approximately 45% of the population, insufferable national humiliation owing to France, England, and the other Western powers, and a collapsed economy with an inflation rate so great that a wheelbarrow loaded as high as possible with thousands of DeutschMarks was worth far more than the cash it contained.
Much of the German population was literally starving.
<Hitler's "Final Solution to the Jewish Problem", and his psychopathic and homicidal quest for the total annihilation of all Jewry, was the centerpiece and the entirety of all Nazi ideology.>
Hitler declared the Jew "the implacable and eternal enemy of the "Aryan" race, and he told all who listened, that Communism, Capitalism, Democracy, Free Trade, Liberalism, Free-Masonry, Race-Mixing, Sexual Deviancy, Homosexuality, Crime, Jazz Music, all Wars since the beginning of time, and each and every fall of a civilization, were 100% "Jewish inventions."
Wherever the Wehrmacht invaded, special SS Deathsquads followed right behind to immediately begin the arrest of all Jews.
This often meant immediate mass summary executions of all Jews along with anyone else rounded up with them as "social undesirables": Marxists, Communists, Gypsies, & homosexuals.
Brutal beatings, rapes, and fiendish tortures, were standard treatment and a hallmark of the Nazi Regime.
The "lucky" ones were merely sent to slave labor/death camps and to military & industrial factories to work as slaves literally until they dropped dead, or until they were gassed or shot.
The Reich clearly targeted numerous German gentiles for arrest, torture, and death:
Christian priests, pastors, and ministers, not "going along with the program" of joining Hitler's Nazi Church, all Labor leaders, Government ministers and officials,
All physically or mentally challenged Germans were seized from their hospitals and institutions, and exterminated.
Any suspected of "dissent".
Any gentile children found throughout Nazi Europe with blonde hair and blue eyes were kidnapped and sent back to Deutschland to be bred as "Aryans", government organized "Breeding Camps" were set up where the most "Aryan" of the brutal SS were bred with the chosen females to produce a "perfect super race".
Today numerous court cases involving the offspring of these camps become headline news in Europe.
[*remember ABBA? The georgeous redhead singer? She was born as a product of these SS Breeding Camps!..her mother was one of the women taken and exported to one of these Camps and she has suffered psychologically and socially all her life as a result].
Goering had already drawn up plans for the mass starvation of the entire Russian population once all of Russia fell to the Reich.
Untold horrors unspeakable... because a small group of angry disenfranchised men followed the rantings of a maniac who promised them a perfect world if they would simply annihilate the Jew from the planet.