The Holocaust Holocaust which means a widespread human disasters special meaning is almost the complete destruction of the Jews in Europe by the Nazis in Germany .It began on January 30th, 1933 on ended on the date of May 8th, 1945 which was Adolph Hitler's death. The holocaust mainly began because Hitler said the Jews were the cause of all of Germany's problems. The German word for Jews is Judan. People who were involved with the holocaust were the Nazi's, led by Hitler, against the Jews, Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, communists, handicapped, political prisoners, criminals, and the mentally ill. Prejudice is a "judgment" about a group of people or things. The Nazi'