map of auschwitz concentration camp in germany
The Holocaust was a widespread hatred and murder of Jews and other groups of people that Adolf Hitler didn't accept. Hitler used propaganda to persuade masses of people that Jews and other minority groups were to blame for many problems. The concentration camps were used as a way of physically and mentally torturing Jews that were caught and taken here to be exterminated. This took place during World War ll. At the concentration camps, they starved them, gave them little amount clothes in cold temperatures, and put in gas chambers. Approximately 6 million Jews were killed. The Soviets ended the Holocaust when reached Germany to capture Hitler and see the mass murders occurring in concentration camps.