Holocaust Maps

While it may have been German ideals that inspired and motivated the holocaust, it was their geography that allowed it to become so widespread and devastating. Had Germany been in a more isolated area such as Britain, the Holocaust would have been more like a civil war. However, the concentration camps would have been less easily liberated had Germany not been in so central a location.
The maps in "WWII and the holocaust" showed how Germany expanded out in virtually all directions around itself, stopping only where land borders or alliances prevented them. While Germany did , massively bomb England, on the map England remained blue, or Allied, the entire time. Because the Germans had to cross the channel to take England, it was much more difficult, and was not accomplished. However, they did control almost all of Western Europe. Because of this, they were perfectly set up for a mass genocide.
Because Germany controlled so much of Europe, they could go in and kill the Jews or deport them without any resistance from local government, because the Nazis made themselves the government everywhere.
When the camps were liberated (as shown in the "liberation" map), many different countries assisted, but all went from the outside in. Because so many of the camps were in northern Poland, it was closest to Russia, so they were the first to reach the camps.

The Holocaust museum is extremely biased towards the side of the winners of WWII, the Allies. I agree with their bias, but it is a bias nonetheless. A museum can be a memorial or monument, if it immortalizes an event, person, or group of persons. The Holocaust museum is exactly that. The whole point of the museum is to remember those lost in the Holocaust, which I think is enough to prove that it is a memorial. The website is biased the way you would expect an American museum about the Holocaust to be: it assumes the viewer dislikes the Nazis and regrets the Holocaust. This bias is apparent in the graphic images the choose to show of dead bodies stacked in piles, or lying in pits. The message presented is: "If you don't agree the Germans were wrong, you are a sick, twisted, homicidal maniac." (Well, its not quite so in-your-face, but it says that in a subliminal way.) However, most people probably don't notice, because the vast majority of the current world does not support the genocide of the Jews, at least in America, which is the most relevant as it is home to the museum.