12 million people were massacared during the Holocaust from 1933 to 1945 in Germany and Poland. The point of the Holocaust was to come up with the perfect race called the Arians. Hitler was the leader of all of this and was very power hungry. He killed poles, Romanians, soviet civilians, soviet prisoners; people with disabilities, and homo sexual were killed. Most women and children were killed right away and the men were sent right to work with barley any food or water everyday. Prisoner were to be shot if they were to do anything wrong. There were over 20,000 concentration camps built all around Europe to make it easier to eliminate the Jews. The Nazis were very good at going into towns and fitting in and then moving everybody to concentration camps. The main killing machine that was used was the gas chambers. They would tell the prisoners that there getting a shower and then put gas into the rooms and kill everybody.