The Holocaust, meaning large-scale destruction or massacre led by Adolf Hitler, was the mass killing of Jews, communists, political prisoners, gypsies, homosexuals and everyone else thought Hitler deserved to be slaughtered. The target of this mass extermination was all the Jews of the world. The result of this action taken by Hitler and the other Nazis was over six million casualties before Hitler was defeated in 1945 at the age of 56. Most of the murders took place in large concentration camps located in several areas, mainly around Poland. The concentration camps were specifically designed to mass murder all Jews and other so-called undesirables. They were created with the sole purpose of killing all the Jews in the world. The camps were intended to replace the Nazis' mobile extermination units. The purpose of the camps was to provide a quicker, easier, and less personal way to exterminate millions of Jews. The Nazis did not care about the personal suffering of the victims, but rather wanted to spare the murderers the unpleasantness of the massacre. The transition from being a commoner to being killed by the hundreds came within a few years of Hitler's takeover of Hitler. leadership of Germany. First, they enacted laws that Jews could not go to school or hold a position in the government; it slowly spread to Jews forced to live in small, disadvantaged, overpopulated areas within larger cities. These areas were called ghettos. From that moment on, the Nazis would round up large numbers of ghettos and herd its citizens onto a train to take them to concentration camps. There were several methods of getting victims onto the train. The purpose of the evacuations was kept secret... half paper... er, or starvation. Those who were unable to walk were killed in the fields and their bodies burned. Some of the Allied troops, who liberated the camps, shot the guards on sight. Some guards were assigned to bury the dead. Other officers were arrested and tried for war crimes. In conclusion, the Holocaust was the genocide of the Jews. The Nazis horribly neglected, abused, mistreated, and degraded Jews, homosexuals, and many others in concentration camps. The camps, designed to make life easier, more efficient, and more pleasant for the Nazis, contributed to the killing of many people in large numbers by forcing them to contribute to terrible medical experiments and killing them in every other way possible. . No one knows how many died in the concentration camps, but it is estimated that more than 6 million Jews were murdered at the hands of the Nazis.