The Holocaust was Nazi Germany’s planned total destruction of the Jewish people and the actual murder of nearly six million of them. That genocidal campaign—the most systematic, bureaucratic, and unrelenting the world has seen—also destroyed millions of non-Jewish civilians. They included Roma and Sinti, Slavs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Freemasons, homosexuals, the intellectually disabled, the physically handicapped, and individuals with mental illness.
QUESTION: What were the causes of the Holocaust and how did it develop?