Causes, consequences & genocide
The Holocaust was a systematic persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi's. They believed that Germans were racially superior and that the Jews were inferior and below them. By 1945 the Germans killed about two out of every three European Jew as their final solution.They established concentration camps were they would put them in gas chambers until they suffocated and died. They also created ghettos,transit camps,and forced labor camps for the Jews. As tyranny spread not only would they target the Jews but they also began persecuting homosexuals, communists, socialists, trade unionists and religious descendants many of them died as a result of incarceration or maltreatment. As a result of the holocaust millions of Jews died at the hands of the Nazis.