The Nazi’s who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were racially superiors and that Jews, deemed inferior, were a threat to the Germans racial community.
The Holocaust began with discrimination. The Jews were then separated from their communities and persecuted. Jews were finally treated less than human beings and the Jews were murdered.
The Nazi’s targeted Jews, Gypsies, the disabled, Slavic people, Poles, Russians, Jehovah’s, Witnesses, and homosexuals.