Holocaust
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May 29, 2022

The Holocaust (from the Greek hólos (total) + kaustós (tada)) or shoah (Hebrew: השואה; Yiddish: חורבן) was a movement of the National Socialist German Workers' Party led by Adolf Hitler during World War II between Nazi Germany and German forces. It refers to the planned massacre of about 11 million civilians and prisoners of war, including Jews, Slavs, Romans, homosexuals, disabled people, and political prisoners throughout the occupied territories. About 6 million Jews were among those killed, or about two-thirds of the 9 million Jews living in Europe at the time. About 1 million Jewish children have died, and about 2 million women and 3 million men are thought to have died. Jews and other victims were killed in mass detention and detention in some 40,000 facilities across Germany and in German-occupied territories. These persecutions and massacres proceeded procedurally. First, various laws that excluded Jews from society, including the Nuremberg Law enacted in 1935, were enacted before the outbreak of World War II. In addition, after the concentration camp was built, prisoners were mobilized for various kinds of labor, and most of them died from overwork or died. In the occupied territories of Eastern Europe, special action units are known to have executed over a million Jews and political prisoners by firing squad. German forces detained Jews and Gypsies in ghettos, loaded them onto freight trains, and transported them to genocide camps. Many people also died on the freight train, but those who survived in turn died in gas chambers disguised as shower rooms. It is known that the entire German bureaucracy was involved in this massacre, and for this reason, a Holocaust scholar called the Third Reich of Germany a “slaughter state”.