The document provides an overview of the Holocaust that took place from 1933 to 1945. It describes how the Nazis targeted around 6 million Jewish people for extermination through a systematic process that started with discrimination and deprivation of rights, then isolation in ghettos and deportation to concentration and death camps, where people were killed in gas chambers and their bodies cremated. Key elements that led to the Holocaust included totalitarianism, German nationalism, a history of antisemitism, and Hitler's belief in racial supremacy of Aryans over Jews and other groups.