The Holocaust is one of the most well-known atrocities in history. Many people have heard about it, but others are unsure of what exactly caused it.
The Holocaust was a genocide that took place from 1939 to 1945. It was carried out by Nazi Germany, who were led by Adolf Hitler and operated in Europe during World War II. The Nazis sought to exterminate the Jewish people, Roma people (also known as Gypsies), homosexuals and other groups deemed inferior by the Nazis.
The Holocaust began when Hitler’s Nazi Party won control of Germany in 1933 and established a dictatorship. They immediately began implementing anti-Semitic laws that discriminated against Jews and stripped them of their legal rights and citizenship. The Nazis then began to implement policies that restricted Jews’ movements, forced them into ghettos, segregated them from non-Jews, and eventually sent them to concentration camps where they were murdered systematically.
In 1939, Germany invaded Poland and started World War II by invading other European nations such as France and Russia in order to expand their power base through conquest so they could dominate Europe more effectively while continuing their genocidal campaign against anyone who opposed them.
