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What was the Holocaust? What did it mean and how many dead did it leave?

2023-01-26T12:10:00.576Z


The Holocaust is one of the most tragic episodes in world history, and represents the most violent event of anti-Semitism to date.


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The Holocaust is one of the most tragic episodes in world history and represents the most violent and extreme event of anti-Semitism to date.

The victims of this despicable period of history were the Jewish people of Europe, and it all began in Germany with the arrival of the Nazi regime in 1933.

Next, we will tell you more about this episode that involved the persecution and mass murder of Jews on the European continent.

What was the Holocaust and how many Jews died?

The Holocaust was the mass persecution and extermination of Jewish people by the Nazis from their coming to power in Germany until the end of World War II (1945), according to the United States Holocaust Museum (USHMM). English).

In this period, an estimated six million Jews in Europe were murdered by the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler and its allies, notes the USHMM.

To measure this genocide, let us remember that the Jewish population in Europe in 1933 was nine million, so that at the end of the Holocaust two thirds of that total were murdered.

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"The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million European Jews by the Nazi German regime and its allies and collaborators. The Holocaust era began in January 1933, when Adolf Hitler and the Party Nazi came to power in Germany. It ended in May 1945, when the Allied Powers defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. The Holocaust is also sometimes known as 'the Shoah,' the Hebrew word for 'catastrophe,'" defines the museum.

The Nazis systematically persecuted and killed Jews in Europe because they were "radically anti-Semitic," according to the USHMM.

"This means that they were prejudiced against Jews and hated them. In fact, anti-Semitism was a basic tenet of their ideology and the foundation of their worldview," he adds.

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What did the Holocaust mean to the Jews?

A violence that grew, marginalized them and exterminated them en masse

After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Jews were almost immediately excluded from political and cultural activities in Germany, and severely limited their economic activities.

But the violence was escalating.

In 1935 came the infamous Nuremberg Laws, which defined Jews as "subjects of the state," stripped them of their citizenship in the Nazi German regime, and prohibited them from practicing most professions, among other things.

The most extreme discrimination and hostility against European Jews came a few years later.

In 1939, after the start of World War II, Jews began to be identified not only in Nazi Germany, but also in the territories occupied by the allies, and they began to be interned in ghettos —specific Jewish quarters in the different cities—or in concentration camps.

Since 1939, the massacres of Jews began which, although they were sponsored by the Nazi regime, were carried out unofficially.

However, beginning in 1941, mass extermination became official policy through the concentration camp system.

To carry out the mass murder, the Nazis and allies resorted to deadly living conditions, brutal beatings, shootings, mass gassings, and specially designed killing centers, according to the USHMM.

With information from Germán Padinger, from CNN.

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Source: cnnespanol

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