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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.
During World War II, 1.2 million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World War II and 16 were killed in action. [342] During World War II, 26,000 Japanese-Americans served in the Armed Forces and over 800 were killed in action. [343]
Before the onset of war, the first pogrom in Nazi Germany was Kristallnacht, often called Pogromnacht, or "night of broken glass," in which Jewish homes were ransacked in numerous German cities along with 11,000 Jewish shops, towns and villages, [4] as civilians and SA stormtroopers destroyed buildings with sledgehammers, leaving the streets ...
Polish resistance movement in World War II: lethal injection after voluntarily taking place of another prisoner, Auschwitz: Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski: 1913–1945: Polish: priest Polish resistance movement in World War II: Dachau: Karl Ernst Krafft: 1900–1945: Swiss: astrologer, occultist
During the World War II period the American Jewish community was bitterly and deeply divided, and was unable to form a common front. Most Eastern European Jews favored Zionism, which saw a return to their homeland as the only solution; this had the effect of diverting attention from the horrors in Nazi Germany.
Hitler declares his January 30, 1939 speech in Reichstag, which states that an outbreak of World War II will result in the extermination of the Jewish race in Europe. 14–16 March 1939 Czechoslovakia is dissolved as Slovakia declares independence as a satellite state, and the Nazis occupy the remainder as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
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Up to 150,000 men deemed to be of Jewish ancestry (60,000 "half-Jews" and 90,000 "quarter-Jews") served in the Wehrmacht during World War II, despite the openly and aggressively anti-semitic policies of Nazi Germany. [1] [2] The policy of the Wehrmacht towards "Mischlinge" personnel throughout the war was "erratic, ambivalent, and contradictory ...