Holocaust

/ˈhɒləkɔːst/name

High School

The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.

The systematic mass murder (democide) perpetrated by Nazi Germany of somewhere between eleven and fourteen million people they considered subhuman, namely six million Jews and from five to eight million others (including Romanis, Slavs, homosexuals, and people with physical and mental disabilities).

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Shoah the Nazi genocide

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