Persecution and Genocide Under the Nazis

During the years between 1933 and 1945 Nazi Germany under Hitler's rule persecuted and killed an enormous amount of people. Hitler's goal came to be known as the 'Final Solution', which was to execute all the Jews and the 'Undesirables', people who did not seem fit to build a Greater Germany. By late 1941 the first Jews from Germany were transported along with other minorities to concentration camps stationed along Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania,Ukraine, and western Russia. In these concentration camps, prisoners were tortured, used as slaves, gassed, and murdered. By the time the war ends thousands and millions of people will have been killed in concentration camps alone.

Hitler decided on persecuting the Jewish race because he was under the delusion that the Jews were enemies to Germany, and the reason why they had lost World War I. The holocaust was an important event in history because it has proven to mankind how much cruelty one man is capable of. Before this nobody believed that one group of people would try to eliminate an entire race of people. There are a billion things that make a historical significance of the Holocaust, but the most important one is that it is meant to be remembered and avoided, and not forgotten and not meant to happen again.

Here's a timeline that I found on the internet, it includes events from 1935 to 1945, all these events relate to the persecution and genocide during World War II.