The Jewish Holocaust (1941-1945)

A The Jewish Holocaust (1941-1945) is a organized genocide during World War II.

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• See: Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), Nazi Gas Chambers, Nazi Germany, German-Occupied Europe, Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, Mass Murder.

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2023

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  • Q: Describe the Jewish holocaust.
  • A: The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators during World War II. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and implemented policies of discrimination against Jews. These policies eventually escalated into the systematic extermination of Jews in concentration camps and death camps throughout Europe.

     The Holocaust was carried out in a methodical and organized manner, with the use of advanced technology and propaganda to carry out the mass murder of Jews. Jews were rounded up, transported to concentration camps, and then killed in gas chambers or through other methods such as starvation, disease, and forced labor. Many Jews were also killed in mass shootings or through other forms of violence.

    The Holocaust had a profound impact on the Jewish community and the world as a whole, and it remains a deeply tragic and significant event in history. The atrocities committed during the Holocaust led to the adoption of the Geneva Convention, which established international laws protecting the rights of prisoners of war and civilians in times of conflict. The Holocaust also served as a stark reminder of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, and intolerance, and has inspired efforts to promote tolerance and human rights around the world.

2023

• (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust Retrieved:2023-1-3.
  • The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah,Template:Efn was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe;around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through labor in concentration camps; and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka in occupied Poland.

    Germany implemented the persecution in stages. Following Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor on 30 January 1933, the regime built a network of concentration camps in Germany for political opponents and those deemed "undesirable", starting with Dachau on 22 March 1933. After the passing of the Enabling Act on 24 March,which gave Hitler dictatorial plenary powers, the government began isolating Jews from civil society; this included boycotting Jewish businesses in April 1933 and enacting the Nuremberg Laws in September 1935. On 9–10 November 1938, eight months after Germany annexed Austria, Jewish businesses and other buildings were ransacked or set on fire throughout Germany and Austria on what became known as Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken Glass"). After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, triggering World War II, the regime set up ghettos to segregate Jews. Eventually, thousands of camps and other detention sites were established across German-occupied Europe.

    The segregation of Jews in ghettos culminated in the policy of extermination the Nazis called the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, discussed by senior government officials at the Wannsee Conference in Berlin in January 1942. As German forces captured territories in the East, all anti-Jewish measures were radicalized. Under the coordination of the SS, with directions from the highest leadership of the Nazi Party, killings were committed within Germany itself, throughout occupied Europe, and within territories controlled by Germany's allies. Paramilitary death squads called Einsatzgruppen, in cooperation with the German Army and local collaborators, murdered around 1.3 million Jews in mass shootings and pogroms from the summer of 1941. By mid-1942, victims were being deported from ghettos across Europe in sealed freight trains to extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, they were gassed, worked or beaten to death, or killed by disease, starvation, cold, medical experiments, or during death marches. The killing continued until the end of World War II in Europe in May 1945.

    The Holocaust is understood as being primarily the genocide of the Jews, but during the Holocaust era(1933–1945), systematic mass-killings of other population groups occurred. These included Roma, Poles, Ukrainians, Soviet civilians and prisoners of war, and other targeted populations. Smaller groups were also victims of deadly Nazi persecution, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Black Germans, disabled people, communists, and homosexuals.

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