why might the holocaust be considered a continuation of discrimination against jewish people in europe?

The Holocaust is considered genocide, one of the worst crimes in international law. The Nazis pursued what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" and this amounted to the systematic and deliberate destruction and extermination of the Jewish people once and for all. Though Nazism is the largest and most criminal expression of anti-Semitism, this has long roots in medieval Europe, where Jews were excluded, expelled from lands, beaten and religiously persecuted.