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The Holocaust was the state-sponsored mass murder of over six million Jews by the Nazi regime during the Second World War. It was the culmination of close to a decade of official discrimination, racial segregation, and brutal violence against the Jewish community in Germany. Under the cover of the war, the Nazis turned to systematic genocide after 1941, setting up industrial-style “extermination camps” designed to slaughter the imprisoned Jewish population of Germany and occupied Europe. While other groups were also targeted for extermination by the Nazi state, including gypsies, gays and communists, anti-Semitism was a central tenet of Nazi ideology. In fact, Hitler believed to the very end that the “war against the Jews” was a more important goal than victory in the conventional military struggles of the Second World War. The Holocaust is now considered one of the worst mass crimes in human history.
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