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... of 1941, such as antisematism, a totalitarian dictator that manipulated his subjects, the timing of the Second World War, xenophobia and opportunism and a look at the views of Intentionalists and Functionalists will be discussed. When Hitler came to power in 1933 the Jews, under German control, numbered just over half a million. Hitler and his Nazi Party aimed to create a Germany in which the German Jews would be set apart from their fellow-Germans, and denied their place in German life and culture. This first solution of what the Nazis called the 'Jewish Question' was to make hundreds of municipalities 'Jew-free'. Jewish families were expelled from villages and small towns into larger towns and cities inside Germany. Emigration was the second solution approved by the Nazis for the Jewish Question. From 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939, the German government permitted, and even encouraged, emigration. Emigration depended not ...