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The Nazi Holocaust




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In History, is identified from the mid-twentieth century with the name of the Holocaust to which technically is also known, following the terminology of the Nazi state itself, as Final Solution (German: "Endlösung) of the Jewish question , that is, the attempt to completely annihilate the Jewish population of Europe. The decision was made, quite possibly, between late summer and early fall of 1941, and architect and administrative organization was Heinrich Himmler. It is also used, although less frequently, the term the shoah.

Etymologically, both terms refer to ancient religious rituals: Holocaust comes from Greek ὁ λόκαυστον holókauston of ὁ λον "completely" and καυστον 'burning', for its part, shoah is the adaptation of the Latin form Ha'Shoah , Hebrew השואה .

The use of the word holocaust to refer to the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, is justified through its etymological reference to something burned, because after using the tool most characteristic genocidal final solution, the gas chambers, the bodies of those killed were burned in crematoria.

The persecution and murder of Jews took place not only in Germany or in different concentration camps created for that purpose, but extended to Russia, Eastern Europe and the Balkan Peninsula, where the Germans and their collaborators ( Austrians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Ukrainians, Hungarians, Romanians, Croats and others) carried out numerous massacres of Jews in mass graves, forests, canyons and trenches.

addition to this ideology, the execution of the genocide had the support of German society, the most modern and most level of technical development in Europe, and that had a bu perfectly rocracia organized.

Anti-Semitism, to a greater or lesser extent in Western Europe and the United States, in addition to the economic problems of the Great Depression provoked

also the reluctance of British and American policy makers when make any significant effort to rescue European Jews during the Holocaust.

Along with the Jews, other ethnic groups as Gypsies, Soviets (particularly prisoners of war), Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, ethnic Poles, other Slavic peoples, disabled, gay and political and religious dissidents were also subjected to persecution and murder under the Nazis. Brian