The holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in nazi death camps--six million of them jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of hitler and the nazis, whose rabid anti...The holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in nazi death camps--six million of them jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of hitler and the nazis, whose rabid anti-semitism led first to humiliating anti-jewish laws, then to ghettos all over eastern Europe, and ultimately to the final solution.