Europe · War

The Holocaust and Nazi persecution

1933-1945 CE · German-occupied Europe and allied states

The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies and collaborators. The regime also persecuted and murdered millions of other people, including Roma, disabled people, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and political opponents.

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How the setting appeared

Homes, schools and businesses were seized; ghettos, transit sites, killing centers, camps and mass-shooting sites formed a continent-wide machinery of persecution.

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How people lived

Victims endured exclusion, dispossession, forced labor, hiding, deportation and murder; people also resisted, documented events and sustained families under extreme danger.

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How people worked

State offices, railways, police, industries and camp systems enabled persecution, while forced labor exploited prisoners and occupied populations.

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Belief, ritual and worship

Jewish and other persecuted communities maintained prayer, ethics and mutual aid where possible; Nazi racial ideology was political and pseudoscientific, not a religion.

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World-atlas stage: Industrial and colonial age
Region: Europe · German-occupied Europe and allied states
Languages and scripts: Yiddish; Hebrew; German; Polish; Romani; Russian; French; Dutch and many languages of occupied Europe
Important people: Anne Frank; Primo Levi; Raphael Lemkin; Ceija Stojka
Events and changes: Nuremberg Laws; Kristallnacht; Ghettoization and mass shootings; Deportations; Operation Reinhard and killing centers; Liberation and survivor displacement
Evidence confidence: High: the Holocaust is extensively documented by perpetrator records, survivor testimony, archaeology and postwar investigation. This atlas has no genocide record type, so its war classification is a navigation constraint and does not redefine the Holocaust.

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Historical geography

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Introduction to the Holocaust

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/introduction-to-the-holocaust

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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What Groups of People Did the Nazis Target?

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/what-groups-of-people-did-the-nazis-target

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

CIT-IWM-WWII

How the Legacy of the Second World War Shaped the Modern World

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-the-legacy-of-the-second-world-war-shaped-the-modern-world

Imperial War Museums

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