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In 1978, [[Sebastian Haffner]] wrote that in December 1941, Hitler began to accept the failure of his primary goal—to dominate Europe, after his declaration of war against the United States, and his withdrawal—was compensated for by his secondary goal: the extermination of the Jews.<ref>Sebastian Haffner, ''The Meaning of Hitler'' {{ISBN|0-674-55775-1}}, translated from Anmerkungen zu Hitler, Publishing house. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main. {{ISBN|3-596-23489-1}}.</ref> As the Nazi war machine faltered during the war's final years, military resources such as fuel, transport, munitions, soldiers and industrial resources were still diverted from the fronts to the death camps.

[[File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising BW.jpg|thumb|250px|A [[A Jewish boy surrenders in Warsaw|photograph]] depicting Polish Jews captured by Germans during the [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]], May 1943]]

 

[[Greece]], [[Yugoslavia]], [[Hungary]], [[Lithuania]], [[Bohemia]], the [[Netherlands]], [[Slovakia]] and [[Latvia]] lost over 70 percent of their Jewish populations; in [[Belgium]], [[Romania]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Norway]], and [[Estonia]], the figure was about 50 percent. Over one-third of the [[Soviet Union]]'s Jews were murdered; [[France]] lost about 25 percent of its Jewish population, [[Italy]] between 15% and 20%.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-losses-during-the-holocaust-by-country?parent=en%2F11652|title=Jewish losses during the Holocaust: By country|website=www.ushmm.org}}</ref> Denmark evacuated nearly all of its Jews to nearby [[Country neutrality (international relations)|neutral]] [[Sweden during World War II|Sweden]]; the [[Danish resistance movement]], with the assistance of many Danish citizens, evacuated 7,220 of the country's 7,800 Jews by sea to Sweden,<ref name=Rescue>[https://archive.org/details/rescueofdanishje0000ugol/page/n44 <!-- pg=2 quote="A total of 7,220 of these". --> Leo Goldberger: ''The Rescue of the Danish Jews: Moral Courage Under Stress'', NYU Press, 1987, preface pages XX-XXI] Linked 2014-04-29</ref> in vessels ranging from fishing boats to private yachts. The rescue allowed the vast majority of Denmark's Jewish population to avoid capture by the [[Nazism|Nazis]].<ref name=Rescue/> [[Jews outside Europe under Axis occupation]] were also affected by the Holocaust in [[The Holocaust in Italian Libya|Italian Libya]], [[History of the Jews in Algeria|Algeria]], [[History of the Jews in Tunisia|Tunisia]], [[History of the Jews in Morocco|Morocco]], [[History of the Jews in Iraq|Iraq]], [[History of the Jews in Japan|Japan]], and [[History of the Jews in China|China]].

{{Further|Nazi crimes against the Polish nation|The Holocaust in Russia|The Holocaust in Serbia|Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia|The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia}}

The [[Slavs]] were one of the most widely persecuted groups during the war, with many [[Polish people|Poles]], [[Russians]], [[Ukrainians]], [[Slovenes]], [[Serbs]] and others killed by the Nazis.

 

{{blockquote|The Nazi revolution was broader than just the Holocaust. Its second goal was to eliminate Slavs from [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]] and to create a ''Lebensraum'' for [[Aryan race|Aryans]]&nbsp;... As Bartov (''The Eastern Front; Hitler's Army'') shows, it barbarised the German armies on the eastern front. Most of their three million men, from generals to ordinary soldiers, helped exterminate captured Slav soldiers and civilians. This was sometimes cold and deliberate murder of individuals (as with Jews), sometimes generalised brutality and neglect&nbsp;... German soldiers' letters and memoirs reveal their terrible reasoning: Slavs were 'the Asiatic-Bolshevik' horde, an inferior but threatening race.<ref>Ian Kershaw.''[https://books.google.com/books?id=_tmGaItZ0tsC Stalinism and Nazism: dictatorships in comparison]''. Cambridge University Press, 1997, p.150 {{ISBN|0-521-56521-9}}</ref>|sign=|source=}}