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The Holocaust

The Holocaust. What is the Holocaust?. The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims- 6 million were murdered;

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The Holocaust

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  1. The Holocaust

  2. What is the Holocaust? The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.

  3. Jews were the primary victims- 6 million were murdered; Gypsies, the Handicapped and the Poles were also targeted for destruction or annihilation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons.

  4. Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war and political dissidents, also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny.

  5. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?MediaId=7827

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