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Holocaust : The Holocaust, And Incarceration Of Jews And The Holocaust

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The Holocaust was the systematic , bureaucratic , state sponsored persecution and murder of six million jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning “ sacrifice by fire”.The Germans targeted the non-Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet civilians for forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland , where these individuals worked and often died under deplorable conditions.German police officials targeted thousands of political opponents including Communists , Socialists , and trade unionists and Jehovah’s witness.Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment.To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews , the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced labors camps for Jews during the war years.The German authorities also established numerous forced labor camps, both in the so called Greater German Reich and in German occupied territory , for non Jews whose labor the Germans sought to exploit.Between 1941 and 1944 , Nazi German authorities deported millions of Jews from Germany, from occupied territories , and from the countries of many of its Axis allies to ghettos and to killing centers, often called extermination camps , where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities.In the final months of the war , SS guards moved camp inmates by train or on

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