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    The document summarizes key details about the Holocaust, including that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party led Germany from 1933-1945, persecuting Jews and others they deemed inferior through the Gestapo police. Over 6 million people died in the genocide, particularly Jews who were killed in concentration camps across Europe due to Nazi beliefs in Aryan racial superiority and anti-Semitism. The Holocaust occurred in Germany and occupied countries from 1933 to 1945 during World War II.

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    The document summarizes key details about the Holocaust, including that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party led Germany from 1933-1945, persecuting Jews and others they deemed inferior through the Gestapo police. Over 6 million people died in the genocide, particularly Jews who were killed in concentration camps across Europe due to Nazi beliefs in Aryan racial superiority and anti-Semitism. The Holocaust occurred in Germany and occupied countries from 1933 to 1945 during World War II.

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    The document summarizes key details about the Holocaust, including that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party led Germany from 1933-1945, persecuting Jews and others they deemed inferior through the Gestapo police. Over 6 million people died in the genocide, particularly Jews who were killed in concentration camps across Europe due to Nazi beliefs in Aryan racial superiority and anti-Semitism. The Holocaust occurred in Germany and occupied countries from 1933 to 1945 during World War II.

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    Who was involved?

    What happened?

    Adolf Hitler: leader


    Nazi: government
    Gestapo: police
    Jews
    Elie Wiesel

    Why did it happen?

    6 million deaths
    Genocide

    Nazis believed Germans were the


    biologically superior race and
    Jews were a threat
    Anti-Semitism
    Killed people of Poland to create
    living space for German superior
    race

    HOLOCAUST
    Connection to today

    When did it happen?

    Genocide in Rwanda (20 years


    ago)
    250,000 Syrian refugees killed
    ISIS: radical extremists

    Where did it happen?

    Europe
    Germany
    Concentration camps
    Auschwitz: Birkenau
    Ghettos

    Holocaust: 1933-1945
    World War II: 1939-1945:
    Germany invaded Poland
    75-80 years ago

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