During World War II, Germany was in the middle of the conflict as the state that started it. Many countries were involved in this war, from the North Sea to the Black Sea, and Nazi Germany conquered and enslaved different countries. The ideology of the NSDAP predominated and fascism spread throughout Europe, bringing chaos, destruction and fear among Europeans. However, while some feared German power and the conquest of their state, others seriously worried for their lives. The people in the second category were mainly Jews, whom Hitler had chosen as the main target of his victimizations. The annihilation of the Jews was so crucial because Germany was in an economic and social depression after World War I and the Semites played the main role of scapegoats, because every ideology needs an enemy and fights hard with him. For communism, it was capitalism, while the Nazi regime chose the Jewish people. To refute the popular belief that the government persecuted and annihilated the Jewish population, it should be mentioned that the issue of Jewish murder did not only concern Hitler, but the majority of the German population at the time. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen argues that the murderers were not just SS or Nazi Party members, but also quite ordinary Germans from all walks of life, men (and women) who brutalized and murdered Jews willingly and with zealous. And they did so, moreover, not because they were forced, nor because of enormous social, psychological or peer pressure, to conform to the behavior of their peers. They did this because of a widespread, deep, unquestioned and virulent anti-Semitism that led them to view the Jews as a demonic enemy whose extermination was not only necessary...... middle of paper. ... The fact is that the largest part of Jews was concentrated in Poland, the Soviet Union, Hungary and Romania, thus preserving their national character and identity. In contrast, Jews who inhabited Western Europe represented much less of the overall population and generally tended to adopt the culture and traditions of their non-Jewish neighbors. Throughout Europe, Jews were found everywhere, whether in business or in daily life. Whatever their difference, the period since 1930 has been very harsh and has changed the lives of the entire Jewish population in Europe, without exception or in the West, even if the repressions there have been a little gentler. The Holocaust is a tragedy for the entire world. It was like this after World War II, it is like this today and it will be exactly like this in the future, because it is one of the most horrible and terrifying events in history of humanity..