In the early 1930s<span>, the mood in </span>Germany was grim. <span> In January 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor, the head of the German </span>government<span>, and </span>many<span> Germans believed</span>that<span> they </span>had found a savior for their nation. Adolf Hitler gains support by promising to overturn them. Nazi <span>propaganda persuaded the </span>German<span> masses to believe that the Jews </span>were<span> to blame and that </span>Hitler<span> was their last hope.</span>
In 1840, the slave population reached its peak of nearly 59,000 people; by 1860, there were 37,000 enslaved people, just 63 percent as many slaves as two decades earlier.
