how did the holocaust end?
When WWII ended it was also the end of the holocaust. the Nazis were defeated because they were defeated in the war, they were defeated by the allies which were Russia and the U.S. fist the holocaust ended in certain places because the allies let go of the prisoners in the camps in 1944-1945. when Hitler died the Germans decided to surrender and let the prisoners go. the allied armies all came in to Germany to set all the prisoners free from the concentration camps.