The Holocaust: The Horrors Of The Holocaust

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The holocaust was a planned ethnic cleansing, in which the Nazi party killed six million Jewish people, and more than eleven million people in total killed. They were forced from their homes, and put in concentration camps, for forced labor, before killing them. Hitler mainly targeted the Jewish, Poles, Gypsies, and Soviets. Hitler also went after the mentally and physically disabled, he also went after prisoners of war. Hitler got rid of people he deemed unfit to join the German Aryan race. The Holocaust began before Hitler rose as leader of Germany, and the Nazi Party. Hitler served in the army in Germany during World War I. Many people besides Adolf blamed the Jewish people for Germany's loss in WWI. Hitler joined the Nazi Party after the

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