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World War II Holocaust
WORLD WAR II HOLOCAUST 2006 The Holocaust or The Shoah , as referred to by the Jews , was a systematic state-led persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa . It was committed during World War II by the Nazis of Germany and their collaborators (Wikipedia , Holocaust This was what the Nazis considered as Endltzsung der Judenfrage or The HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Final_Solution " \o "Final Solution " Final Solution of the Jewish Question . Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler , about 9 to 11 million
people were exterminated during this entire period . Other minorities (ie . Poles , Serbs , homosexuals persons with mental illness , Jehovah 's Witnesses , etc ) who the Nazis saw as inferior or undesirable were also killed
It is considered by many experts as the most organized and systematic mass-killing in the history of mankind . Jews were herded into death camps and were allowed to suffer many indignities including torture and cruel medical experiments . Jews would be killed by the hundreds through poison gas , freezing or shooting . The women and the children were not spared . They were treated no less cruelly than the male adults . They were also sent to labor camps to serve as slaves to the Nazis
All these inhuman acts are based on the Anti-Semitism philosophy of Adolf Hilter . He laid down the foundations of this movement in his 1925 autobiography entitled Mein Kampf or My Struggle . According to Hitler the Aryan race is the superior race of the world . Nazism , which followed his ideas , portrayed their interpretation of an "Aryan race " as the only race capable of , or with an interest in , creating and maintaining culture and civilizations , while other races are merely capable of conversion , or destruction of culture (Wikipedia , Aryan
Because of this belief in Aryan supremacy , the Nazis began by oppressing the Jews and other minorities through discrimination . Jews were not allowed to have jobs or were not given service in hospitals or government offices . These acts would worsen and escalate into an uncontrollable frenzy and would culminate in the infamous Final Solution
Bibliography "Holocaust " Wikipedia : The Free Encyclopedia . Wikimedia
Foundation . 8 June 2006 "Aryan " Wikipedia : The Free Encyclopedia . Wikimedia
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