Persecution, antisemitism and the Holocaust – basic principles
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The Holocaust refers to the systematic persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany and its helpers. The persecution began from 1933 with discrimination, disenfranchisement and exclusion and radicalized especially from 1941 into mass murder. Antisemitism, that is, hostility toward Jews, was a central element of Nazi ideology. The persecution led via violence, ghettoization and deportations to mass murder, including through mass shootings and in extermination camps. Other groups were also persecuted, such as Sinti and Roma, people with disabilities, political opponents, homosexuals and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Historical sources, eyewitness accounts and research help to reconstruct and classify the events.
Antisemitism and the Holocaust are to be recognized as historically documented, systematically planned and carried out crimes of the Nazi regime and distinguished in their stages (discrimination, disenfranchisement, deportation, murder).
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What did the term "Final Solution to the Jewish question" mean in National Socialist usage?
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