The Second World War began thanks to Hitler's persuasive words that forced the German people to follow him in everything. Hitler brought the brainwashed Germans into a war against the world that should never have been fought because he made it seem like the Germans always did the right thing. In Hitler's book Mein Kampf, Hitler writes: "All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, spurred into activity by the merciless Goddess of Anguish or by the torch of the spoken word thrown into the midst of the world". the people" (Hitler). The world was given a piece of literature that was a piece of propaganda that benefited the Germans in many ways. They were given a scapegoat and something to believe in Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, gained his power through diplomacy and his words took him to the top and brainwashed the German people into believing in a senseless war . Liesel, the protagonist of The Book Thief, has recurring night terrors that show the true meaning of pain due to war. And Brigitte Eicke, a teenager in Germany during the war, shows exactly how this affected her everyday life and how influenced she was by the Nazis. During World War II death hung in the air and the world was going through hard times, a country had been brainwashed to believe lies and the world had yet to see anything of the true horrors of war. People were witnessing the Holocaust, persecution and racism on a global scale and nothing was being done to stop it. Because of things like The Book Thief, these ideas are presented in such a way that they shouldn't be real. People all over the world try daily to get rid of things like genocide or persecution, but the only way to stop them is to educate the rest of the world not to put any effort into the cause. The world must change to start believing in a peaceful world and this will only happen if everyone takes part in making the world a better place. I believe the world has the potential to be a great place, but things like World War II and the Holocaust proved me wrong. I think if we were ever to live in a perfect world, we should all start working together for peace. For a world without violence, a world without crime, a place without everything