Holo Caust

Hitler killed Jews The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος [holocausts]: holos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"), also known as The Shoah was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programmer of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany. The genocide of these six million people was genocide of two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust. Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' systematic murder of millions of people in other groups, including ethnic Poles, Romania, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other political and religious opponents. By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people. The persecution and genocide were carried out in stages. Legislation to remove the Jews from civil society was