A Very Brief History Of The Holocaust

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The Holocaust was a brutal genocide, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party from Germany killed, slaughtered and much worse, about 6 million Jewish people. The Holocaust began gradually after the invasion of Poland in 1939. Germans established ghettos in many different Polish cities, where Jews were imprisoned. This is the Holocaust started. Starting early, allies started to take over the German camps. Many more camps were taken over, this was slowly removing Hitler’s power. The biggest camp, Auschwitz, was liberated in January, 1945. This camp was where most the the deaths would have occurred. The Holocaust lasted about 12 years, before it ended.
Between the years 1933 and 1945, millions approximately 11 or more men, women and children were

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