20th Century Blog

The holocaust was the systematic state sponsored persecution and murder around six million Jews by the Nazis regime and its collaborators. The Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire”. In 1933 the Nazis who took power in Germany believed Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jews deemed “inferior” were an alien threat to the so called German racial community.

The final few months of the war the SS guards migrated camp inmates by train or with forced marches, also called “death marches” in the attempt to prevent the Allies liberation of large numbers of prisoners. They did not stop the marched until May 7 1945.