Whose idea was the Holocaust?

1) The answer of Hitler being the inventor of the Holocaust is a resounding "No!" Pogroms against Jews have been going on for centuries. Here are some details on Pogrom s over the past 2 millennia. read more

Hitler started the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler, who became leader of the Nazi Party or NSDAP in the 1930s, attributed many of Germany's problems to the Jewish minority, already antagonized in Germany. Eventually, the party caused violence against Jews to escalate, and on Kristallnacht (night of the broken glass), Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues were vandalized, raided, and destroyed. read more

The primary responsibility for the Holocaust rests on Hitler, and the Nazi Party leadership, but initiatives to persecute Jews, Gypsies, and others were perpetrated by the Schutzstaffel (SS), the German military, ordinary German citizens, as well as by collaborationist members of various European governments, including their military personnel and civilians alike. read more