Holocaust

What is the "Holocaust"? 

The Holocaust refers to a specific event in 20th century history: The systematic, bureaucratic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and their collaborators as a central act of state during World War II. Although Jews were the primary victims, up to one half million Gypsies and at least 250,000 mentally or physically disabled persons were also victims of the Nazi genocide. More than three million Soviet prisoners of war were killed because or their nationality; Poles as well as other Slavs were targeted for slave labor, and as a result tens of thousands perished. In addition, thousands of political and religious dissidents and Jehovah’s Witnesses were persecuted, many died as a result of maltreatment; homosexuals and others deemed “anti-social” were also persecuted and often murdered.



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