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against Hitler. With all this foreign influence being destroyed, Hitler ensured complete control of his peoples' minds.

Life was also worse under the Nazis for the Church. Hitler tried to collect all the protestant churches together and form an official Reich Church. Although most Germans still laid their faith with their old churches, they still went along with the Reich church. Hitler encouraged people who didn't like the Church to join the German Faith Movement, based on the worship of the sun. He probably encouraged this, as he probably thought that worshipping the sun rather of the Fuhrer was better than worshipping God, rather than the Fuhrer. Few bishops or churchgoers opposed the Nazis seriously, so the Nazis didn't mind. It was foolish to support the Church and challenge the Nazis openly, as some people, mostly murdered by the SS, found out.

The people that faced the wrath and evil of the Nazi regime, and who undoubtedly had the worst time under Nazi rule was the minorities, particularly the Jews, as well as handicapped people. In secret, all the handicapped people were taken away, and sterilised so that they couldn't produce any inferior offspring, as the Nazis wanted a perfect Aryan race. Of course, a perfectly normal couple could have a handicapped child, in which case that child will also be sterilised.

Originally, when the Nazis came to power, they made people discriminated against the Jews. Jewish teachers wouldn't have access to the same facilities as another Aryan German teacher. Jewish teachers only taught Jewish children, Aryan teachers taught Aryan children. Jewish doctors weren't allowed to treat their Aryan German clients. When the Jews were first discriminated against, nobody imaged how far the Nazis would go.

The Jews were at first deported to ghettos, and then after the Nazis had planned the Final Solution', sent off to concentration camps, on trains. Once arriving in the camp, all their clothes would be taken to be given to other people no point in wasting them on corpses. The very young, very old, or very weak were immediately gassed. Then all the rest were sent off to hard labour, constantly for hours, and then they got sent to their dormitories.' These were crowded on a ratio of 10:1 in each room; if one room was supposed to hold 60 people, it held 600. If they didn't die from disease (which spread fast through over crowding and with excrement and corpses laying everywhere) or from over-working or starvation, they would be shot and buried in mass graves, gassed (which they thought were showers) or gruesomely experimented upon. The Jews didn't even know what was awaiting them, they just thought, when they got on the train, that they were going to a labour camp to help out with the war effort. This gruesome end awaited 6 million Jews, political prisoners (Communists, Socialists and trade unionists), homosexuals, gypsies and churchmen or anyone who had too much to say.

Life under Nazi rule was very different for different people. For some, live improved and for others life got worse. For some life got to an all time high, such as if you in charge of a big business. For an unfortunate few, life became living hell, like for the Jews. Under the Nazi regime, when life improved in some way, another aspect of life was desperately changed for the worse. Any benefit that came about during the Nazi reign came at a terrible price - people gave up their freedom of speech, political parties and their culture. Overall, any benefits the Germans gained from Nazi rule were undone when the crimes against humanity and the loss of life and culture - that were committed under Adolf Hitler's regime - were revealed.

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