The Holocaust: A Very Brief History Of The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi army attempted to conquer Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews. Many Jews were captured while attempting to flee the country or during hiding. The Jews that were captured were sent to concentration camps. Later, as the Nazi regime imposed their influence over countries they occupied, they developed a range of different types of camps. These were concentration camps, transit camps, forced-labour or work camps and extermination camps. Concentration camps were prison camps especially for political prisoners or prisoners of war, in which many people died from poor conditions, treatment or from mass execution. Transit camps were camps for