The holocaust is known as the killing of 17million people by the Nazi group. The holocaust was led by the dictator Adolf Hitler and the Nazis who were known as “his children”. The 17 million who were killed weren’t just the Jews but other groups like the gypsies who were targeted because the Nazis believed their ancestors were criminals and so the gypsies were seen as criminals or mixed blood, people with disabilities seen as useless, some Slavic people and blacks were judged for political reasons. It’s important to know that the holocaust didn’t just jus occur in one event it all took place in a series of tragic events which brought harm and discrimination to the groups that were persecuted. The first stage of the holocaust was the Nazis tried to classify the groups into different categories for those who they couldn’t tell their origin like the gypsies, whom the Nazis experimented on and classed them as mixed blood who they believed were criminals. In the second stage the Nazis gave specific names to different groups like gypsis, or on the passports they will mark a letter to show which group a person came from for examples on passports that belonged to the Jews they were marked J. In the third stage of the holocaust the Nazis used laws that would deny the Jews of their rights. Later Adolf Hitler realised who couldn’t really get rid of the Jews through immigration, so he planned genocide which is known as the mass killing of a population. Then they organised camps which were used to kill people, some were killed with guns while others were asked to take “showers” but unfortunately for them those showers were filled with toxic gas which killed them. Some of these camps were called belzec, Treblinka and Auschwitz. To hide all the evidence they dug up graves and buried the bodies and tried to intimidate the witnesses. How it relates to ww2 Before the genocide happened another terrible event occurred that led to the death of about 6 million Jews which was World War 2, Hitler wanted to win the war and at the same time get rid of the existing Jews and in the course of ww2 Germany conquered a part of Poland where some polish Jews lived and he took the captive and put millions of them in the camps where they eventually died. The holocaust was terrible time and we should remember it so it should never happen again. What happened in the end? In the end as the allies made their way through the areas controlled by the Nazis they found the camps and realised the extent of the holocaust. Some Nazis have been persecuted for their crimes but others can’t be found or died since and Hitler the ended up committing suicide before the end of the war. The truth is justice can’t always be completely served but we should remember and honour those who have died and never ever forget the holocaust. By Emma laurels