Claim: Adolf Hitler's ideology was racially motivated and greatly influenced the Holocaust.
Evidence: Under Hitler 's leadership and racially motivated ideology , the Nazi regime was responsible for the genocide of at least 5.5 million Jews and millions of other victims whom he and his followers deemed Untermenschen -LRB- `` sub-humans '' -RRB- and socially undesirable.
Holocaust victims were people who were targeted by the government of Nazi Germany for various discriminatory practices due to ethnicity , religion , political beliefs , or sexual orientation.