The Holocaust during the Second World War is arguably the most studied and recognised
crime against humanity that has ever occurred in the course of history: affecting over six
million individuals and targeting marginalised communities such as the Jewish community,
those of Slavic descent, communists and socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled and the
Traveller community, it is difficult to brush this event off as simply another grim aspect of
the past. Though calculating precisely how many individuals were affected by the Nazi’s
‘Final Solution’ in quest of so-called ‘racial purity’, the protection of the German society and
the pursuit of the science of Eugenics, is a difficult and almost impossible task, it is certainly
agreed amongst scholars to be in the millions from every corner of Europe.