Holocaust

By 1945, approximately six million Jews had been murdered in the Holocaust. The process had escalated from exclusion and loss of rights to imprisonment, deportation and genocide. War expanded the territory and populations under Nazi control, enabling the regime to carry out persecution and murder on a far greater scale.

The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. It was a genocide: an attempt to destroy a whole people. Nazi racial persecution also targeted other groups, including Roma.

The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million European Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies and collaborators. It was a genocide: an attempt to destroy an entire people. Jewish people were targeted because of who they were, not because of anything they had done.