• The Holocaust was one of the worst mass-genocides known to man.
• It constituted the industrialized destruction of people in German territories during the Second World War.
• Minorities and “inferior” people were gathered, such as Jews, Romani's, gays, disabled people, POWs, etc.
• The people were then separated into whether they were able to work, or whether they were to be exterminated.
• Those who worked would be worked to exhaustion and either die from it, or be killed with everyone else.
• People were killed in so called gas chambers built in concentration camps, being suffocated to death by the gas Zyklon B, a gas made from commercial pesticide.
• Many people were also experimented on, such as mass sterilization (the experiments were meant to test human durability for example and were terribly cruel).
• In total about 12 million people were killed during the Holocaust, with 5 to 6 million being Jewish people.
• Although other genocides such as Stalin's rule led to the deaths of about 20 million people, it is the industrialized killing of people which is the most horrible part of the Holocaust.