The word ‘Holocaust,’ from the Greek words ‘Holos’ (whole) and ‘Kaustos’ (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an alter. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews…(History, 2009, para. 1)
During World War II, the German dictator who was responsible for this horrific crime was an anti-Semitic Nazi leader named Adolf Hitler. Hitler saw the Jews as a threat to the German racial purity as well as a lower standard compared to the Germans. So as millions of Jews as well as gypsies and homosexuals were being murdered, Hitler constructed a plan known as the “final solution” or otherwise known as the Holocaust, where the masses of the concentration camps were in the country of Poland. One of the most popular of the death camps during World War II was in Warsaw, Poland; the camp was called Auschwitz (History, 2009).
During World War II, the German dictator who was responsible for this horrific crime was an anti-Semitic Nazi leader named Adolf Hitler. Hitler saw the Jews as a threat to the German racial purity as well as a lower standard compared to the Germans. So as millions of Jews as well as gypsies and homosexuals were being murdered, Hitler constructed a plan known as the “final solution” or otherwise known as the Holocaust, where the masses of the concentration camps were in the country of Poland. One of the most popular of the death camps during World War II was in Warsaw, Poland; the camp was called Auschwitz (History, 2009).