... of the massacre set it apart. 6'000'000 Jews were eradicated. When compared to other persecutions where Jews were either killed on a much smaller scale, or they were simply outcasted. We se that the Nazi regime was not simply a plan to seize control, but a methodical plan to wipe out the Jewish community. Secondly, a political party (the Nazi party), rather than a religious group ordered the holocaust. Although often described as an alternative to religion, the Nazi Party had a more political reason for the persecution, as opposed to previous persecutions, such as the Spanish inquisition, which was arguably based on more religious grounds. Hitler, however, based his justification on race science, the theory that different ethnic groups have certain inherited advantages, some race scientists in the early part of last century conducted several tests on the IQ of different races, the results showed that white Europeans had the ...

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