Why did the holocaust happen?

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Why did the holocaust happen?

as detailed as possible please. history project help!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The holocaust was an attempt to purify the Germanic aryan race of social and ethnic corruption. The aim was to strengthen a perceived teutonic master-race and foster it back to purity in an attempt to return Gernamy to power.

The reality turned out to be a political/ethnic hate crime. anyone deemed subversive politically, religiously or socially were sent to what eventually turned into death-camps.

Internees were not just Jewish, but blacks, gypsies, and Homosexuals, Jehovah's Wittnesses, as well as political dissenters.

The greatest Irony is that Hitler Himself was part Jewish, but never felt the lash of the Teutonic/Aryan Purge.