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What was the primary motivation behind the Holocaust?
Which group was not specifically targeted during the Holocaust?
What did the word 'Holocaust' originally mean?
In addition to the Jews, which other group was systematically persecuted during the Holocaust?
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What ideology did the Nazis believe in, which led to the persecution of certain groups?
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What is the term used to describe the systematic and wholesale slaughter of the Jews of Europe by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War?
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What group, in addition to the Jews, fell victim to Nazi racial policies and were murdered in vast numbers?
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What does the term 'catastrophe' mean?
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Which term specifically refers to the murder of some six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Nazi era from 1933 until 1945?
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What distinguishes natural catastrophes from human catastrophes?
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Study Notes
- The Holocaust was a systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and collaborators.
- The term "Holocaust" means "sacrifice by fire."
- Nazis, who came to power in Germany in 1933, believed Germans were racially superior and targeted Jews, Roma (Gypsies), disabled, and some Slavic peoples.
- Other groups, like Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, were persecuted based on political ideology or behavior.
- The Holocaust was a genocide with the aim of annihilating the Jewish people, primarily motivated by the Nazis' antisemitic racist ideology.
- Between 1933 and 1941, Jews were dispossessed of their rights and property, and by 1945, nearly six million Jews had been murdered.
- Natural catastrophes are events causing great damage or suffering, sudden and often out of people's control. Human catastrophes are the direct result of human actions.
- The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a human catastrophe during the Nazi era from 1933 to 1945, in which Jews were persecuted and murdered in an attempt to kill all Jews.
- It began with discriminatory legislation and propaganda, escalating with the outbreak of World War II and Nazi invasions, and resulted in the systematic mass murder of Jews. Other groups were also targeted and killed.
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Test your knowledge of the Holocaust, a tragic event in history where approximately six million Jews were persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Learn important facts about this dark period of time.
