The Holocaust was a significant event during World War II. It was perhaps the worst atrocity against humankind throughout history. The Holocaust was the systematic extermination of 6 million Jews by the Nazi’s. As well as Jews, hundreds of thousands of Gypsies, and at lest two hundred and fifty thousand mentally or physically disabled persons were also victims. Hitler’s motivations for the holocaust were entirely racial. Hitler tried to implement his concept of racial …showed first 75 words of 442 total…

…showed last 75 words of 442 total…by gas. When the war ended, millions of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists, and others targeted by the Nazis had died in the Holocaust. The Holocaust was driven by the Nazi ideology of racial superiority and inferiority. Combined with Hitler's quest for lebensraum, "living space," and his goals of world domination and with World War II as a cover, the Nazi regime was able to carry out the greatest crime in human history.