The Holocaust

The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, approximately two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were committed primarily through mass shootings across Eastern Europe and poison gas chambers in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chełmno and Majdanek death camps in occupied Poland. Concurrent Nazi persecutions killed millions of other non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term Holocaust is sometimes used to include the murder and persecution of non-Jewish groups, such as the Romani and Soviet POWs.

thumb|The Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (here pictured in 1938) titled himself [[Führer and ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.]]

German network of concentration and extermination camps in occupied Poland during World War II

The ' (, , abbreviated Gestapo' ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.

The Schutzstaffel (; ; SS; also stylised with SS runes as ᛋᛋ) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

Nazi plan for the genocide or extermination of the Jews, resulted in the genocide known as 'Holocaust' or 'Shoah'

Nazi extermination camp in south-eastern Poland

negation, distortion or minimization of the Holocaust

Nazi Germany's programme of euthanasia which claimed 275,000–300,000 victims

Nazi racial plan of enslavement and genocide of peoples of Central and Eastern Europe, mainly Jews, Slavs & Roma

badge forced on Jews by Nazis, Christians, and Muslims at varying times in history

debate in European society pertaining to the appropriate status and treatment of Jews in society

' (SS-TV'; or 'SS Death's Head Battalions') was a major branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary (SS) organisation. It was responsible for administering the concentration camps and extermination camps of Nazi Germany, among similar duties. It was both the successor and expanded organisation to the (guard units) formed in 1933. While the was the universal cap badge of the SS, the SS-TV also wore this insignia on the right collar tab to distinguish itself from other SS formations.

set of research ethics principles for human experimentation

Forcible movements of prisoners between Nazi camps

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Wannsee () is a locality in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany. It is the westernmost locality of Berlin. In the quarter there are two lakes, the larger Großer Wannsee (Greater Wannsee) and the Kleiner Wannsee (Little Wannsee), located on the Havel and separated by the Wannsee Bridge. The larger of the two lakes covers an area of and has a maximum depth of .

Nazi ghetto in occupied Lithuania

alliance with the Axis powers during World War II by various citizens and organizations

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killing prisoners by means of forced labour

relationship between Nazi Germany (1933–1945) and the leadership of the Arab world

Nazi ghetto for Polish Jews in occupied southwestern Poland

cloth emblems; part of the system of identification in Nazi concentration camps

mass murder of the Jews in Croatia, part of the Holocaust

campaign of the Third Reich to murder Nazi concentration camp prisoners

anti-Nazi and anti-German fighting groups of Jews in World War II

infamous paramilitary unit of Ordnungspolizei with criminal activity in German-occupied Poland during WWII, a unit of the German Order Police

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the extermination of Dutch Jews during World War II

thumb|250px|Heinrich Himmler's report Number 51 from 1 October 1942 to 1 December 1942 detailing the murder of "bandits" and Jews in [[Southern Russia, Ukraine, and the Bialystok District]] In German military history, ' (), also referred to as Nazi security warfare' during World War II, refers to the concept and military doctrine of countering resistance or insurrection in the rear area during wartime with extreme brutality. The doctrine provided a rationale for disregarding the established laws of war and for targeting any number of groups, from armed guerrillas to civilians, as "bandits" or

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Warehouses in the Auschwitz concentration camp, occupied Poland, that stored looted prisoners' property

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Nazi ghetto in occupied Belarus

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Massacre commited by Nazi Soldiers in WW2 against Yugoslavia

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body of thought concerning the role of God in the Holocaust

The Sanitätswesen ("medical corps") was one of the five divisions of a Nazi concentration or extermination camp organization during the Holocaust. The other divisions were the command center, the administration department, the Politische Abteilung and the protective detention camp.

Nazi ghetto in occupied Ukraine

emigration of Jews from Nazi Germany

Various aspects of humor related to the Holocaust

the extent to which the Holocaust was known contemporaneously

education about patterns and trends in the phenomenon of genocide and/or about the causes, nature and impact of particular instances of genocide

Nazi paramilitary controlled by Himmler

Responses of international organizations and governments to the Holocaust

evidence for the genocide of Jews in World War II

complex of Nazi German death camps near the city of Mazyr in Belarus

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Jews sheltered by Arab and Muslim population