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'Despite everything, I still believe people are good at heart'. These words were immortalized by a 16 year-old Jewish girl named Anne Frank. She wrote these words down in the midst of the most ghastly war in over five millennia- World War 2. This war is especially known for its horrific killings, particularly the massacre of Jews. This episode was nicknamed the Holocaust. It was the systematic, state-sponsored murder of Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II (1939-1945). The Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate all Jews as part of his aim to conquer the world; his 'final solution'. By the end of the war, the Nazis had killed about 6 million Jewish men, women, and children-more than two-thirds of the Jews in Europe.In addition to Jews, the Nazis systematically killed millions of other people whom Hitler regarded as racially inferior or politically dangerous. The largest groups included Germans with physical handicaps or mental retardation, the Roma; also know as the Gypsies, and the Slavs, particularly Poles and Soviet prisoners of war. Nazi victims also included many homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, priests and ministers, members of labor unions, and Communists and other political op
In the 1990's, Jewish groups pressured those who had profited from the Holocaust to compensate Holocaust victims or their descendants. Jews were excluded from civil service, for example, and from the fields of education and culture, and they could no longer farm the land. Warsaw, the largest ghetto, held 400,000 people. Auschwitz was the largest and most notorious. In the 1800's, many people began discriminating against Jews on racial rather than religious grounds. Jews were forbidden to marry non-Jews. ResistanceDuring the Holocaust, the Nazis kept their actions as secret as possible, and they deceived their victims in many ways to prevent resistance. The ghettos in small towns were generally not sealed off, which was often a temporary measure used until the residents could be sent to bigger ghettos. The smallest ghetto housed approximately 3,000 people. What most people forget are the Romas (Gypsies), the Slavs, particularly Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, priests and ministers, members of labor unions, and Communists and other political opponents. The Nazis killed many of them and sent others to concentration camps. Germany's defeat in World War I (1914-1918) and a worldwide depression in the early 1930's had left the country's economy in ruins. For many, the resistance was a struggle for physical existence.
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