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A timeline of the Holocaust is detailed in the events which are listed below. Also referred to as the Shoah (in Hebrew), the Holocaust was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Nazi Germany and its World War II collaborators. About 1.5 million of the victims were children.
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.
[1] Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels helped write the speech, [2] which was delivered on the sixth anniversary of Hitler's seizure of power in 1933. [3] The speech lasted two [4] or two-and-a-half hours. It dealt with both the foreign and domestic policies of the Nazi government. [5]
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.
The Abandonment of the Jews has been well received by most historians, and has won numerous prizes and widespread recognition, including a National Jewish Book Award, [1] the Anisfield-Wolf Award, the Present Tense Literary Award, the Stuart Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Theodore Saloutos ...
The fabled music festival, seen as one of the seminal cultural events of the 1960s, took place 60 miles (96.5 kilometers) away in Bethel, New York, an even smaller village than Woodstock. An ...
Woodstock lives because we yearn for that spirit of peace and love in the world and our personal lives, wishing the best for our loved ones.
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.