The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was the genocide of around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945. Jews were targeted for extermination as part of other groups, including the Roma and "incurably sick", as well as ethnic Poles and other Slavs, Soviet citizens, Soviet prisoners of war, gay men, Black people, and Jehovah's Witnesses. In total, 17 million were killed during the Holocaust.In a history of the...
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