The Holocaust
genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany carried out during the second world war / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Holocaust, sometimes called The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה), was a genocide in which Nazi Germany systematically killed mainly Jews during World War II. Around six million Jews were killed,[lower-alpha 1][13][14] as well as five million others that the Nazis claimed were inferior (mainly Slavs, communists, Roma people, disabled people, homosexuals, and Jehovah's Witnesses). These people were rounded up, put in ghettos, forced to work in extermination camps, and then killed in gas chambers.[15]
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The Holocaust | |
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Part of World War II | |
Description | Genocide of the European Jews |
Location | Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe |
Date | June 1941 – May 1945[2] |
Attack type | Genocide, ethnic cleansing |
Deaths | Around 6 million Jews[lower-alpha 1] |
Perpetrators | Nazi Germany and its collaborators |
Motive | Antisemitism |
Trials | Nuremberg trials, Subsequent Nuremberg trials, Trial of Adolf Eichmann, and others |
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