The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of millions of Jews, Romani people, political dissidents, homosexuals, and other marginalized groups by the German Nazi regime during World War II (1941-1945). Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, orchestrated the genocide, leading to the deliberate murder of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others. The atrocities included mass shootings, forced labor, and the establishment of concentration and extermination camps, where victims faced unimaginable suffering and death