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|date = 1941 - May 8, 1945 | |date = 1941 - May 8, 1945 | ||
|location = Nazi Germany, Greater Germanic Reich | |location = Nazi Germany, Greater Germanic Reich | ||
|motive = To purge Europe of Jews in order to favor the "Aryans" of Germany. | |motive = To purge Europe of Jews in order to favor the "Aryans" of Germany. | ||
|crimes = [[Genocide]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[Torture]]<br>Mass [[murder]] | |crimes = [[Genocide]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[Torture]]<br>Mass [[murder]] | ||
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{{Quote|The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.|Stephan Ambrose}} | {{Quote|The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.|Stephan Ambrose}} | ||
'''The Holocaust''', also known as '''the Shoah''' and the '''Final Solution to the Jewish Question''' (or simply the '''Final Solution''') was a government-orchestrated mass [[genocide]] that affected approximately six million Jews or more during the final years of [[World War II]]. The Holocaust was orchestrated by the Nazi | '''The Holocaust''', also known as '''the Shoah''' and the '''Final Solution to the Jewish Question''' (or simply the '''Final Solution''') was a government-orchestrated mass [[genocide]] that affected approximately six million Jews or more during the final years of [[World War II]]. The Holocaust was orchestrated by the [[Nazi Party|Nazi German]] dictator, [[Adolf Hitler]], and it advocated the idea of doing away with several fragments of society. This included other groups such as: Black people (including African immigrants), LGBT people (including gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender); Slavs (including Russians, Ukrainians, Serbians, Poles, Czechs, and Slovaks), Romani, Greeks; various Christian denominations (primarily Jehovah’s Witnesses and Catholics); Brown people (including Mulattoes and Mamelukes); communists, socialists, capitalists, anarchists, feminists, and other dissidents and Allied POWs, especially Soviet POWs. | ||
The Holocaust ran concurrently alongside the Nazi Party’s two other genocide programs, the [[Porajmos]] (targeting Romani) and ''[[Generalplan Ost]]'' (targeting Slavs.) | The Holocaust ran concurrently alongside the Nazi Party’s two other genocide programs, the [[Porajmos]] (targeting Romani) and ''[[Generalplan Ost]]'' (targeting Slavs.) | ||
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[[Category:Terrorists]] | [[Category:Terrorists]] | ||
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