Louie27 wrote:
Please inform us how the Jews were able to create the holocaust, in Germany, in World War II. That should prove to be interesting.
Holocaust" and "Shoah" redirect here. For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation).
The Holocaust
Part of World War II
Selection Birkenau ramp.jpg
Hungarian Jews being selected by Nazis to be sent to the gas chamber at Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz Album May/June 1944[1]
Location Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories
Date 1941–45
Target European Jews—broader usage of the term "Holocaust" includes victims of other Nazi crimes.[2]
Attack type
Genocide, ethnic cleansing, deportation, mass murder
Deaths 6,000,000–11,000,000
Perpetrators Nazi Germany and its allies
No. of participants
200,000
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The Holocaust
Jews on selection ramp at Auschwitz, May 1944
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The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"),[3] also referred to as the Shoah (Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, "the catastrophe"), was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis.[4] The victims included 1.5 million children,[5] and represented about two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe.[6] A broader definition of the Holocaust includes non-Jewish victims of the Nazi campaign of mass murder,[7] based on other ethnic or biological factors, such as the Romani, Slavs, and the Aktion T4 patients who were mentally and physically disabled.[8]