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The slaughter and extermination committed by the Nazis against the town Jew mainly but also against other ethnic groups and other social minorities is historically known as the Holocaust. Its name comes from the idea that a holocaust was what the ancients celebrated: a sacrifice of a person or animal in favor of the gods. The Holocaust committed by the Nazis is seen as one of the greatest and cruellest tragedies in the history of the Humanity.

It can be safely said that the Jewish Holocaust was a draft thought and planned by Hitler already before the assumption of him as ruler of Germany. Hitler had a deep hatred and contempt for Jews but also for other ethnic groups and minorities (such as Poles, blacks, or homosexuals) who he considered dirty the pure Aryan spirit.

To carry out the Holocaust, the regime Nazi had gigantic fields of concentration where millions of people were imprisoned and unjustly accused. Often times, these arrests had no reason other than to allow the

cleaning social in Germany. In these concentration camps like Auschwitz in Poland, the Nazis kept thousands of people in subhuman living conditions, starving, desolate and often victims of torture, both physical and psychic. Both German citizens and citizens of other countries that had previously been conquered and dominated by Hitler could be sent to these concentration camps.

When the Allies finally won the war to the Nazism and they discovered that what existed as rumors was true, they could not believe what their eyes saw, just as Humanity could not believe it: impressed soldiers discovered the gigantic piles of bodies that had been brutally and mercilessly annihilated, as well as the massive number of survivors who turned up ungainly, sick and fearful.

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