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Extermination
The Holocaust was the worst genocide in history. The Nazis, who carried out this vicious unjust act, created the plan to round up and kill millions of people. Art Spiegelman illustrated in Maus, the Holocaust, and Adolf Hitler’s plan to destroy the Jews in his quest for an Aryan nation.
Jews were not the only victims of the Holocaust. There were other victims such as: Roma (Gypsies), the mentally impaired or physically disabled, Slavic people (Poles, Russians), Communists, socialists, Jehovah’s witnesses, and homosexuals. All were captured by the SS. Over nine million Jews populated Europe and most resided in countries during World War II that the Third Reich would occupy or influence. (“United” 1, 2). This general hatred was also directed towards other ethnic minorities.
In the Russian Empire, anti-Semitism became an official policy of the government, which in 1881 and 1882 encouraged anti-Jewish mob attacks. It was ordered by the leadership......

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