Throughout history, numerous innocent people affected by genocides or attempted genocides were harassed, tortured, forced to work against their will, and were even murdered solely because they were discriminated against by their bullies and/or tormentors. Some of these victims had been deceived and ostracized as well. Take for instance, what approximately eleven million people experienced during the years of 1941 till 1945. Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Regime, and his Aryan followers had planned out a genocide of Jews, Slavs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, African Americans, “Gypsies,” and many other groups of people merely because the Nazi ideology singled these groups out as threats to Germany’s Aryan race that could possibly weaken the Nazi community’s vigor. In fact, the Nazis were afraid that these people would hinder the Aryan "master plan." Indeed, entire populations were wiped out because Hitler, as well as his followers had the audacity to mercilessly kill anyone that was supposedly deviating from what he classified as the norms of his ideal society. People with a race, sexual orientation, or any religious and political beliefs that differed from what Hitler expected were chosen to perish, whether they were inside or outside of a concentration camp ("Introduction to the Holocaust").
This genocide, preceding the end of our second world war, was known as the Holocaust. It was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and extermination of approximately six million Jews and five million non-Jews alike by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire,” and the Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January of 1933, believed that Aryans were "racially superior" and that any group of people, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to their racial homogeneity. So they chose to sacrifice the lives of countless