History, 10.11.2020 20:40 JakeCline

My school never told me what the Holocaust was, can someone explain?

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The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the ideological and systematic state-sponsored persecution and mass murder of millions of European Jews (as well as millions of others, including Romani people, the intellectually disabled, dissidents and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community. After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews were consistently persecuted, Hitler’s “final solution”–now known as the Holocaust–came to fruition under the cover of World War II, with mass killing centers constructed in the concentration camps of occupied Poland. Approximately six million Jews and some 5 million others, targeted for racial, political, ideological and behavioral reasons, died in the Holocaust. More than one million of those who perished were children.

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basically, the holocaust was the mass killing of jewish people during wwii in germany and other parts of europe. adolf hitler (former dictator of germany) led this because of his irrational hate for this group of people. about 6 million jews were killed during this time. (Between 1941 and 1945)

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i'm sure if you look it up or ask your teachers, they will give you a more in depth answer. i hope this helps though :)

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gaius cassius longinus and marcus junius brutus, former enemies of julius caesar who'd joined the roman senate, led caesar's assassination, dubbing themselves "the liberators." and the second one is the assassination of julius caesar was the result of a conspiracy by many roman senators led by gaius cassius longinus, decimus junius brutus albinus, and marcus junius brutus. they stabbed caesar (23 times) to death in a location adjacent to the theatre of pompey on the ides of march 15 march 44 bc.

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the mothers played a major role in confronting the government and ending the war.

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