Holocaust

What is the Holocaust?
Term for Hitler's attempted genocide of European Jews during World War II; resulted in deaths of 6 million Jews.




Hitler



In 1934, Hitler became Germany's president under the title Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor of the Reich).












Concentration camps


a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. In Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945,