The Holocaust

One of the most horrific events to ever take place in the world's history is the genocide of over 5 million Jews of Europe and North Africa. Although other “racially inferior” individuals also feel victim to this state-sponsored mass extermination, Jews were the main victims. Those less desirable individuals to the eyes of the Nazis include the physically and mentally disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witness, and Freemasons. The total death toll has not yet been fully established but historians estimate that around 9 to 11 million individuals were victimized by the Holocaust, some estimates even reach as high as 26 million.

The Nazis carried out the Holocaust without the slightest trace of mercy. According to popular beliefs, the people were executed by locking them up in a gas chamber. That’s not the only method the Nazis used for execution. The victims were made to suffer before being killed. People, including children, were treated like guinea pigs being subjected to various medical experiments that proved to be lethal. Dr. Josef Mengele earned the moniker the “Angel of Death” because of his brutal experiments. Some of the prisoners in concentration camps were killed because of the daily beatings and tortures that guards carried out.