Why is the Holocaust primarily associated with the murder of six million Jews?

The Holocaust is primarily associated with the murder of six million Jews because the systematic destruction of the Jewish people was a central, paramount goal of Nazi ideology and state policy. While the Nazi regime also targeted and murdered millions of others—including Roma, Slavs, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and political opponents—the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" was uniquely characterized by its deliberate, industrialized, and continent-wide scope.123

The Nazis perceived Jewishness as a biological threat to the German people, leading them to implement a state-sponsored campaign of genocide that resulted in the death of approximately two-thirds of Europe’s prewar Jewish population. This campaign, enacted through mobile killing units and specialized extermination camps, represents one of history’s most calculated efforts to eradicate an entire group of people. Consequently, the term Holocaust is inextricably linked to this specific, systematic attempt to annihilate European Jewry.4521