What Was the Holocaust?

What was the Holocaust? The Holocaust was the mass murder of 6 million Jews during World War II (1939-1945). This was one of the most tragic times in mankind. The Nazis isolated the Jews from the rest of the world and would late mark them for total annihilation. The Nazi's racial definition was anyone who had Jewish blood. So it was even someone with one Jewish grandparent, and so they were to be killed. The Nazis just rounded up the Jews in the countries they had occupied during World War II. The reason the Holocaust happened was not a good one. It happened because of Hitler's racial beliefs against the Jewish. Hitler promoted prejudice, which turned to hate and the persecution of an ethnic group, the Jews. Men, women, and children died horrible deaths just because they were Jewish.…