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Though the two institutions have different estimates, if you average the total number of Jews each says were murdered, the result is the commonly used figure of six million.
- Wannsee Conference
The “Wannsee Conference” was a high-level meeting of Nazi...
- Documents Regarding Mass Murder
Letter from SS Major-General Stahlecker to SS General...
- Testimony of Crematorium Engineers
As I mentioned at the beginning, I was in the extermination...
- Deportation of Austrian & German Jews
The embarkation of the Jews to the freight cars of the...
- Himmler Orders Completion of The Final Solution
Estimated Number of Jews Killed. Documenting Numbers of...
- Creating the Master Race
From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany’s government led by Adolf...
- Remarks by Himmler
From the speech of Reichsführer-SS Himmler, speaking to SS...
- Background & Overview
The “Final Solution of the Jewish Question“ (in German...
- Wannsee Conference
Excluding Jews, almost 11 million civilians or POWs from Poland, the USSR, and Yugoslavia were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators, but classifying these deaths is often problematic.
Most estimates place the total number of deaths during the Second World War at around 70-85 million people. Approximately 17 million of these deaths (20-25 percent of the total) were due...
The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɑː l ə k ɔː ˈ s t / ⓘ, HAW-lə-kawst)was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in ...
The Holocaust was the systematic extermination of Europe's Jewish population in the Second World War, during which time, up to six million Jews were murdered as part of Nazi Germany's "Final...
The Holocaust —the murder of about six million Jews by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945—is the most-documented genocide in history. Although there is no single document which lists the names of all Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, there is conclusive evidence that about six million Jews were murdered. [1]
One of history’s darkest chapters, the Holocaust was the systematic killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II (1939–45).
