Holocaust (Dictionary)

Holocaust

The Holocaust is the mass murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the National Socialist Party (Nazis) during 1933-1945. The victims of this genocide were targeted due to their racial, religious or social groupings.During the Second World War the Nazi Party sought to systematically destroy particularly the Jewish race and its culture, but also other groups that it considered a threat to the Aryan population, including disabled people and homosexuals. ‘The Final Solution to the Jewish Question’ was the intensification of Nazi action after 1942, and led to the extermination of millions of Jews in death camps around Europe.