Introduction In the past decades, several genocides have been experienced in different parts of the world. People have died; others have been incapacitated while others have been left displaced. The effect of having genocide is felt in the world over, as it is a crime against the humanity. There are several causes of genocide in the current society. The main causes are dictatorship, politics, and racism. In the last few decades, the word has experienced various genocides and they can be attributed to these factors. Some of the genocides the world has experienced are Rwanda genocide, Darfur, Nanking massacre, the holocaust, and trail of tears. Holocaust genocide The holocaust tragedy is an example of the various massacres that have taken place in the recent past. Just like the other types of massacres that have taken place, the main course of this tragedy was due to racism as well as support of a certain religion. Scientists have previously insisted there is nothing like race in the world (Reilly et al. 6). However, people all over the world can be classified into different races. Race is a category that is used to describe people in their personal appearance. The most used feature to describe people to a certain race is the skin color. Nevertheless, other features may be used to identify people into a certain race: blood type, hair, noses, and any other facial features. Racism occurs due to one community considering it more superior than their fellow counterparts. Also notable about racism is the fact that it may take several forms and it is not just limited to the literal meaning of racism like the skin color, the size of the eyes, and also may be the size of the nose (Reilly et al. 8). Holocaust cannot just be defined as an event; it was continued process that took place for a period longer than a decade where millions of people were involved. It was a process that was instigated by Nazi army lead by Hitler, their leader. The meaning of holocaust according to Greek definitions is a “sacrifice by fire” (Bergen 2). Holocaust came about after the change of power in 1933 where the new regime considered they were more superior racially than the Jews. The holocaust era considered other races like Jews, Gypsies, Slavic people, and the disabled as inferior to the German race. The earlier years of power of Nazi regime before the war saw the Nazi establish concentration camps that were aimed at detaining people that opposed them both politically and ideologically. Police officials in this regime caught up with the so-called “inferior races” that compromised of Jews and Roma among other races and put them in these camps. The aim of this regime was to concentrate these people for deportation to their original land. The war also was inclusive of other persecution of people who share different ideologies, as well as political orientation different from those of the Nazis (Bergen 22). However, it is notable that the Jews were the main target of the Nazis as they were seen as the main danger to Germany regime. It was in 1945 that the war spread all over Europe where German and their collaborators killed a big number of people, and it is estimated that two out of three Jews were killed. The phase that this number of people was killed was called the final solution as an estimated 12 million people were killed with half of this number being Jews. Holocaust tragedy can be explained to be both racialist and non-racist, as part of it was not racialist. The reasoning behind this is the fact that there were other people of German origin, who were a