The Holocaust was a horrific event in WW2 orchestrated by the Nazi government of Germany, with chosen victims based on their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, and sexual orientation. The Nazis implemented discriminatory laws and policies against specific groups, leading to the systematic persecution and eventual genocide known as the Holocaust. This persecution included legalized segregation, involuntary institutionalization, euthanasia, and forced sterilization of those deemed unfit by Nazi standards. While the majority of victims were Jews, Sinti-Roma people and Slavs, other victims included individuals who were considered social outcasts or political enemies according to Nazi ideology, such as homosexuals. As WW2 progressed, Nazi persecution intensified, resulting in non-judicial imprisonment, confiscation of property, forced labor, sexual slavery, death from extreme work conditions, human experimentation, malnourishment, and execution using various methods. The goal for specific groups like the Jews was complete genocide. It is estimated that approximately six million Jewish men, women, and children were systematically persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Moreover, the Holocaust era claimed the lives of an additional 11 million individuals from different targeted groups.