There were the purges of Stalin. There were the killing fields of Pol Pot. There was the "Cultural Revolution" of Mao Zedong. All of these occurrences significantly affected their respective countries. However, these examples of tyranny and cruelty do not surpass the hatred displayed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime during the most horrible act of genocide ever: The Holocaust.

Holocaust affected the human race for all eternity. There is a lot to learn from such a calamitous disaster to prevent it from ever happening again. The Holocaust is yet another instance of how much power hate can have when bigotry and cruelty unite to form an enormous massacre of 12 million innocent people, 6 million of whom were of the Jewish religion. Who could have ever thought such a thing possible? The Holocaust was the mass murder of innocent people not for who they were but for what...