The holocaust, meaning “sacrifice by fire” in Greek, refers to a time when Hitler was in power, a time when Jews, communist, Jehovah’s witnesses, poles, homosexuals etc… got killed by Hitler and his Nazis. The holocaust begun in January 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. Hitler became chancellor because president Paul von Hindenburg though he would be a big help in Germany, though he could resolve Germanys problems so he named him chancellor of Germany. Later on, after the president’s death, Hitler became leader of Germany. When the holocaust begun Hitler already had plans for people for example the final solution. The final solution was a plan to eliminate the Jewish people. The Jews were the group of people Hitler and his Nazis hated the most.
When Hitler had power he killed a lot people, most of them were Jews, about 600,000 people got killed. Why? They got killed because Hitler and the Nazis believed that Jews were life unworthy. They also killed other groups (poles, Jehovah’s witnesses, and other groups) because of their perceived racial inferiority. Mainly the holocaust “was carried out without any mercy”, before people got killed they made them suffer first, they had deadly experiments to eliminate the Jews and the other groups of people. That was when the holocaust begun and when the death begun too.
The holocaust ended when the allied forces defeated Germany and then took over. The holocaust really ended in 1945 after the ww2 was about to end to it also ended when the nazi lost power of Germany, but the official day of the end of the holocaust was at the end of ww2 exactly when all the troops surrendered also. The holocaust ended in certain places when the allies let go of the prisoners in the camps in 1944-1945 after Hitler’s death in 1945 the Germans decided to let go of the Jewish prisoners. The Allied armies, theAmericans, British, French, and Canadians from the West, and the Soviets and Yugoslavs from the East. They all came into Germany and let go of the concentration camps and the people. Then forced the nazi to surrender on May 8, 1945.
Humanity was saved.