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The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ), [1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה), was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
Jews in Nazi Berlin: From Kristallnacht to Liberation. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-52159-6. Miron, Guy (2023). Space and Time Under Persecution: The German-Jewish Experience in the Third Reich. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-82815-2. Nicosia, Francis R. (2008). Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. Cambridge ...
Austria annexed by Nazi Germany (the Anschluss). All German anti-Jewish laws now apply in Austria. 24 March 1938 Flossenbürg concentration camp is opened in Flossenbürg, Bavaria, ten miles from the border with Czechoslovakia. [32] 26 April 1938 Jews are required to register all property over ℛℳ5,000 under the Four Year Plan. [33] 29 May 1938
This timeline of antisemitism chronicles events in the history of antisemitism, hostile actions or discrimination against Jews as members of a religious and ethnic group.It includes events in Jewish history and the history of antisemitic thought, actions which were undertaken in order to counter antisemitism or alleviate its effects, and events that affected the prevalence of antisemitism in ...
The technology was adapted, expanded, and applied in wartime to unsuspecting victims of many ethnic and national groups; the Jews were the primary target, accounting for over 90 percent of extermination camp victims. [9] The genocide of the Jews of Europe was Nazi Germany's "Final Solution to the Jewish question". [10] [4] [11]
[110] [111] This is particularly crucial given the fact that Munich was once at the ideological heart of Nazi Germany. Jewish life in the capital Berlin is prospering, the Jewish community is growing, the Centrum Judaicum and several synagogues—including the largest in Germany [112] —have been renovated and opened, and Berlin's annual week ...
This contempt included the notion that the Slavs in particular, were manipulated by the Jews; Hitler being utterly convinced that the people of Soviet Russia were "controlled by Jews." [151] [s] In this, Hitler exploited the historic Prussian and German revulsion against Slavs to ideologically defend his bio-political agenda to German audiences ...
Despite Benito Mussolini ' s close alliance with Hitler, Italy did not adopt Nazism's genocidal ideology towards the Jews. The Nazis were frustrated by the Italian forces' refusal to co-operate in the roundups of Jews, and no Jews were deported from Italy prior to the Nazi occupation of the country following the Italian capitulation in ...