Holocaust Process
Holocaust is the name given to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of various ethnic, religious and political groups during World War Ii by Nazi Germany.i The main victims of the Holocaust were European Jews in what the Nazis called the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question.'ii However, other victim groups included Russians, Slavs, Poles, the mentally and physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, outspoken Lutheran and Catholic clergy, Communists and political dissidents and criminals.iii Shortly after Hitler's accession to power, the Nazis organized a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany on April 1, 1933.iv This was followed by a series of increasingly harsh racist laws that were passed in quick succession.v On April 7, 1933, the Law for the Restoration
As the war began, massive massacres of Jews took place, and by December 1941, Hitler decided to completely exterminate European Jews.xx During the Wannsee conference in January 1942, Nazi leaders discussed the details of the 'Final Solution of the Jewish question,' Endlosung der Judenfrage, and thus they began to systematically deport Jewish populations from the ghettos and all occupied territories to the seven camps designated as Vernichtungslager, or extermination camps.xxi The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 prevented marriage between any Jew and on-Jew, and stripped all Jews of German citizenship and of their basic rights, such as to vote.xi Jews were also defined as a separate race under 'The Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor,' therefore being Jewish was now determined by ancestry, not religious belief
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