The Holocaust: Origins, History and Aftermath c.1920-1945

Approximately 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. No one will ever know the exact figure. Of those, some six million were Jewish, including one million children. The remainder comprised numerous ethnic and social groups deemed the Untermenschen, the subhuman species that, according to the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the ruling Nazis, were not fit to live.


When the implementation of the Final Solution — Reinhard Heydrich's plan to exterminate the remaining Jewish popula...