azucenaemilia32The Holocaust was the persecution and bureaucratically organized and sponsored by the State of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators systematic murder . "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933 , believed that Germans were "racially superior " and that the Jews , deemed "inferior ," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.