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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.
planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler: executed, Dachau: Carl Friedrich Goerdeler: 1884–1945: German: Mayor of Leipzig, Putschist political opponent: executed, Berlin-Plötzensee: Willi Graf: 1918–1943: German: White Rose resistance fighter; student German resistance to Nazism: Guillotined, Munich ...
Hitler begins a purge of the SA and the non-Nazi conservative revolutionary movement through the SS under pressure from the Reichswehr. Hitler's colleague Ernst Röhm, the former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, and Gustav Ritter von Kahr are killed. The move guarantees Hitler military support, quashes his opposition, and enhances the power of ...
At the end of December 1942 Hitler received a document from Himmler entitled, "Report to the Führer on Combating Partisans", stating that 363,211 Jews had been murdered by the Einsatzgruppen in August–November 1942. This document was specifically printed in large font that Hitler could read without glasses and was marked "Shown to the Führer".
In 1941, Jews were massacred, and by December, Hitler had decided to exterminate all Jews living in Europe at that time. The European Jewish population was reduced from 9,740,000 to 3,642,000; the world's Jewish population was reduced by one-third, from roughly 16.6 million in 1939 to about 11 million in 1946.
Ordered the mass deportations of Jews in France as a reprisal policy Collaborated with the Einsatzgruppen for reprisals against Jews in Ukraine Executed by Nazi Germany for involvement in the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler: Erich Hoepner: September 14, 1886 August 8, 1944 57 years, 329 days Heavily collaborated with ...
The launch of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 coincided with the German top echelon's newfound intent to pursue Hitler's new anti-Semitic plan to eradicate, rather than expel, Jews. [19] Hitler's earlier ideas about forcible removal of Jews from the German-controlled territories to achieve Lebensraum were abandoned after the failure of the ...
Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin [a] after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe.