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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".
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 Final Solution (German: die Endlösung, pronounced [diː ˈʔɛntˌløːzʊŋ] ⓘ) or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question (German: Endlösung der Judenfrage, pronounced [ˈɛntˌløːzʊŋ deːɐ̯ ˈjuːdn̩ˌfʁaːɡə] ⓘ) refers to a plan orchestrated by the Nazi regime of Germany during World War II for the genocide of individuals they defined as Jews.
The term holocaust, derived from a Greek word meaning 'burnt offering', [2] was an ordinary English word for centuries also meaning 'destruction or sacrifice by fire' or, figuratively, 'massacre'. During the 1950s, it started to become a proper noun and the most common word used to describe the Nazi extermination of Jews in English and many ...
The Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews during World War II, in the systematic genocide known as the Holocaust, which wiped out two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
A 102-year-old Polish man who believed his entire family had died in the Holocaust was reduced to tears this week when he met a nephew that he didn't know he had.
The book presents a detailed history of the Holocaust and is based on a vast array of documents and memoirs. It won the 2007 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Non-fiction and won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2008. [1] Friedländer is an Intentionalist on the origins of the Holocaust question.
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