What was the holocaust?

In this lesson, we will learn about what happened during the Holocaust. We will learn what a genocide is, and then learn about the genocide that happened at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In this you will learn about the events that led up to the Holocaust. We will look at Primo Levi's account of being a prisoner at Auschwitz, and then consider different interpretations of the events that led to the Holocaust. We will look at historians who have contextualized it within the fighting of the Second World War, and historians who have contextualized it with Nazi control of Germany.