The Holocaust was the systematic state-sponsored torment and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime in Germany. The Nazis came to power in Germany in January 1933 and believed that Germans were racially superior to all others. With that, they deemed that the Jews were inferior and a threat to the “pure” German racial community. Over the next twelve years, the German Army captured and tortured many Jewish men, women, and children. The Holocaust is one of the most appalling times in history