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  2. Timeline of the Holocaust - Wikipedia

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    7 March 1936 Germany remilitarization of the Rhineland. Using the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance as a pretext, Hitler ordered the Wehrmacht to march 20,000 German troops into the Rhineland. The United Kingdom and France did not resist German actions. 29 March 1936 The SS-Totenkopfverbände is established. [26] 6 June 1936

  3. The Holocaust - Wikipedia

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    The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ, US also / ˈ h oʊ l ə-/) [1] 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.

  4. United States and the Holocaust - Wikipedia

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    The prevalence of antisemitism in German society was widely known by the 1930s, [12] but citizens of the United States were unaware that the Holocaust was taking place for the first year. [13] Several individuals attempted to contact the government of the United States and other governments to inform them of the Holocaust after it began in 1941.

  5. Knowledge of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and German ...

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    Der Holocaust als offenes Geheimnis: die Deutschen, die NS-Führung und die Alliierten [The Holocaust as an open secret : the Germans, the Nazi leadership and the Allies] (in German). Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-54978-6. Bankier, David (1996). The Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opinion Under Nazism. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-631-20100-7. Bauer, Yehuda ...

  6. Aftermath of the Holocaust - Wikipedia

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    A survey released on Holocaust Remembrance Day in April 2018 found that 41% of 1,350 American adults surveyed, and 66% of millennials, did not know what Auschwitz was. 41% of millennials incorrectly claimed that 2 million Jews or less were killed during the Holocaust, while 22% said they had never heard of the Holocaust.

  7. History of the Jews during World War II - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the war, more than half of Jewish population of Europe had been murdered in the Holocaust. Poland, home of the largest Jewish community in Europe before the war, had over 90% of its Jewish population, or about 3,000,000 Jews, murdered by the Nazis.

  8. Hitler's Willing Executioners - Wikipedia

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    Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust is a 1996 book by American writer Daniel Goldhagen, in which he argues collective guilt, that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were "willing executioners" in the Holocaust because of a unique and virulent "eliminationist antisemitism" in German political culture which had developed in the preceding centuries.

  9. Evidence and documentation for the Holocaust - Wikipedia

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    [4] [8] Nevertheless, much of the evidence was preserved and collected by Allied investigators during and after the war, and the overwhelming evidence of the crimes ultimately made such erasure attempts futile. Collectively, the evidence refutes the arguments of Holocaust deniers that the Holocaust did not occur as described in historical ...