The history of the Holocaust during the Third Reich

Description

The Holocaust is a unique occurrence in human history. Starting in 1933 and ending in 1945,
it has been defined by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as ‘the systematic,
bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime
and its collaborators’. Although the Holocaust commenced in Germany in 1933 when the
Nazis came to power, it spread through occupied Europe, often with the support of local
populations. The effort to exterminate Europe’s Jews took on various forms, including
extermination camps, concentration camps, and mobile killing units. Many of the most
notorious camps were located outside Germany, but their coordination and resourcing was
centrally organised.