The holocaust
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from my english teacher, this is some notes she gave us / Ms. [Freedmans] definition of The Holocaust:
The Holocaust usually refers to a specific event in 20th centure history: the state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European [Jewry] by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.
Victims: Jews, Gypsies, the handicapped, homosexuals, Jehovahs Witnesses, Soviet [POWs], and political dissidents
Why? Not simply the logical and inevitable consequence of unbridled [rascism]. Rather, rascism, combinded with centuries-old bigotry, renewed by a nationalistic fervor which emerged in Europe in the later half of the 19th centure, fueled by Germanys defeat in WWI and its national humiliation following the Treaty of Versailles, exacerbated by worldwide economic hard times, the ineffectiveness of the [Weimar Republic], and international indifference, and [catalyzed] by the political charisma, militaristic inclusiveness, and manipulative propaganda of Adolf Hitlers Nazi regime, contributed to the eventuality of the Holocaust.The holocaust meaning & definition 1 of The holocaust.
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a very large amount of destruction, especially by fire or heat, or the killing of very large numbers of people:
The holocaust meaning & definition 2 of The holocaust.
