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The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic,
state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust"
is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that
Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were "life unworthy of life." During the era of the
Holocaust, the Nazis also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the handicapped,
and some of the Slavic people. Other groups were persecuted on political
and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.
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Overview
An overview of the events of the Holocaust.
Pictures
To observe pictures of the people and events that happened during the Holocaust.
Hitler
To read about the leader of the Nazi generation and his influences on our world.
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