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Also known as the Shoah (Hebrew for "the catastrophe"), was a genocidal act in which approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. |
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The English word is borrowed from the Sanskrit word, आर्य, meaning "noble" or "noble one". Based on speculations that the Proto-Indo-European homeland was located in northern Europe, a 19th-century hypothesis which is now abandoned. It has been used in Nazi racial theory to describe persons corresponding to the "Nordic" physical ideal. |
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Also known as Pogromnacht was a pogrom (a series of coordinated deadly attacks) against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians. The name comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed.
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Is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure. The term was originally used in Venice to describe the part of the city to which Jews were restricted and segregated. |
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Was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish population in Nazi-occupied Europe. This policy was formulated in procedural terms at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942,and culminated in the Shoah or Holocaust which saw the killing of two thirds of the Jewish population of Europe. |
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Is the systematic destruction of all or a significant part of a racial, ethnic, religious or national group. Well-known examples of genocide include the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and more recently the Rwandan Genocide and the Bosnian Genocide. |
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Were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the 1935 annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. The two laws were the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, which forbade marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans and the Reich Citizenship Law, which declared that only those of German or related blood were eligible to be Reich citizens; the remainder were classed as state subjects, without citizenship rights.
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Is a person who is outside their home country because they have suffered (or feared) persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, or political opinion; because they are a member of a persecuted social category of persons; or because they are fleeing a war. |
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