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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was an atrocity of unparallel proportions that occurred
during WWII and left millions of Jewish, along with a multitude of others, dead. The Nazi Party regime, as led by dictator Adolf Hitler, who came to power as chancellor of the Third Reich in 1933 and reigned until 1945, aimed at systematically eliminating all people regarded as racially inferior or politically dangerous to their goal of one "pure" race. In addition to Jews, the Nazis systematically killed Gypsies, Slavs--particularly Poles and Soviet prisoners of war, other Germans determined to be traders, those who were physically handicapped, mentally retarded, or ill, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, priests and ministers, members of labor unions, communists and other political opponents. By the end of the war, the Nazis had killed millions of men, women, and children, more than two-thirds of the European Jewish population, as many as twelve million or more people in all. Many of the......

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