About the Holocaust -

The Holocaust was the World War Two Genocide of the European Jews. Genocide is the killing of a large group of people because they are a different nationality, race or religion. These mass killings were controlled by Germany’s Nazi party, led by Adolf Hitler, who believed that Germany was superior than other countries and used that thought process to dominate other people. This mindset led Germany to begin invading and take over other countries before and during World War Two.

 

The Holocaust started with the discrimination against Jews with the Nazi’s ruling, Hitler soon came up with the ‘Final Solution’ which came to fulfilment under the cover of World War Two. Other groups persecuted by the Nazi Party includes Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s witnesses and Homosexuals. Mass killing centres were constructed in the concentration camps of occupied Poland.

 

It was approximated that six million Jews and around five million others died in the Holocaust, targeted for political, racial, ideological and behavioural reasons. Around one million of those were children. Nearly 7 out of 10 Jews living in Europe were killed due to their identity. The ascendance of many wealthy Jews created resentment by non-Jews during periods of financial crisis and many believed the Jews were exploiting Germans. Hitler believed that the Jews were an inferior race and an alien threat to Germany’s racial purity and community.