Throughout the history of the world, hatred and prejudice have always existed and it always will, but the Holocaust took that hatred and prejudice to a whole new, more extreme level. The Holocaust began in 1933 and lasted for roughly 12 years, and debatably the biggest tragedy in world history. It is so widely known because it consisted of an evil man with way too much power, the genocide of roughly eleven million people, and the terrible conditions each person had to endure. The person behind the entire event, Adolf Hitler, is one of the most powerful people in the world. He was Chancellor of Germany for twelve years and the leader of Nazi Germany for eleven years, but even before this he wrote his own book. “Mein Kampf,” written while
