Introduction
The Holocaust was a mass genocide that occurred between 1933-1945. During this twelve year span, eleven million people were killed, including six million Jews. Hitler deemed the Jews as inferior, and believed they were a threat to the racially superior Germans. The Nazis used concentration camps, such as Auschwitz and Treblinka, to exterminate people on a mass scale. The German Reich targeted not only Jews, but also Roma, disabled people, Poles, and Russians. Other groups were persecuted due to their ideological beliefs and behaviors, including communists, socialists, Jehovah's witnesses, and homosexuals. After the Holocaust, over 2/3 of the Jewish population in Europe was eliminated. The Holocaust will forever haunt human history.
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