The Holocaust was the mass murder of European Jews by the nazis during the second world war. It took place from the 30th of January 1933 to the end of the war in Europe on May 8th 1945. The nazi dictator Adolph Hitler planned to wipe out the entire Jewish population as a part of his plan to conquer the world. Holocaust refers to any widespread human disaster but it’s special meaning is the annihilations of six million Jewish men, women and children by the nazi regime. The Jews were singled out for extermination because the nazis had a hatred for them as they considered jews as a race whose goal was world domination and was an obstruction to the Aryan dominance. So the nazis thought it was their duty to eliminate the Jews as they were a threat. Every Jewish community occupying Europe suffered losses during the holocaust. Jews in north Africa were persecuted but did not suffer the same mass murders as in Europe.Ethnic groups, especially Gypsies and Poles were killed as well.At the end of the war in 1945 the nazis had killed over two thirds of the Jews in Europe.In 1933 the nazi regime came to power in Germany and almost immediately they started to take measures against the Jews. One of the first measures was to define who was considered a Jew. Anyone who had 3 or more Jewish grandparents was automatically a Jew even if that person did not belong to the Jewish community. Half Jews were considered Jewish only if they belonged to the Jewish religion or were married to a Jewish person.Other half Jews or Jews with just one grandparent were categorized as Mishlinge . The Mischlinge were officially excluded from membership in the nazi party and all Party organisations. Then the boycott of Jewish shops and businesses started by the nazis.extreme efforts were made by the nazis to eliminate Jews from economic life. Jewish lawyers and doctors lost their Aryan clients, Jewish children were not allowed to go to school with the German childre...
