The Holocaust
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The Holocaust refers to millions of "undesirables" (people, that the Nazi government didn't want to exist) including 6 million Jews killed by Adolf Hitler's Reich in 20th century Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe under massive state-run extermination programs. Many were rounded up, put in ghettos, forced to work in concentration camps and killed in massive gas chambers:
- Jews (5.1–6 million killed), including:
- Polish Jews (3-3.5 million)
- Other Poles (1.8–1.9 million killed)
- Gypsies (200,000–800,000 killed),
- Disabled people (200,000–250,000 killed),
- Homosexuals (2200–25,000 killed),
- Jehovah's Witnesses (950-2500 killed)
2 million other civilians were gunned down with machine guns, killed by torture,and were also hit and beaten until they died.
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