Copy of Treaty of Versailles, WWII, and the Holocaust
Published on Nov 23, 2015
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Between 1941 and 1945, Jews were targeted and methodically murdered in the largest genocide of the 20th century.
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This genocide was part of a broader aggregate of acts of oppression and killings of various ethnic and political groups in Europe by the Nazis. Non-Jewish victims of broader Nazi crimes include Gypsies, Poles, communists, homosexuals, Soviet POWs, and the mentally and physically disabled.
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In total, approximately 11 million people were killed, including one million Jewish children alone. Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds were killed.
The persecution and genocide were carried out in stages. Initially the German government passed laws to exclude Jews from civil society, most prominently the Nuremberg Laws of 1935.
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A network of concentration camps was established starting in 1933 and ghettos were established following the outbreak of World War II in 1939. In 1941, as Germany conquered new territory in eastern Europe, specialized paramilitary units called Einsatzgruppen were used to murder around two million Jews and "partisans", often in mass shootings.
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