During World War 1 the Holocaust is when around six million jews were held captive as part of a extermination by NAZI's led by Adolf Hitler. Homosexuals were also hunted out . Concentration Camps were jews were kept as a slave till they died of exhaustion or disease. When einsatzgruppen started shooting mass amounts of jews and political opponents Jew and Romas were put in ghettos before being transported hundereds of miles in trains toe xtermination camps. If they had survived the trip they were likely to be killed in gas chambers. The country was turned into a "genocidal state."