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Butchery Of The Holocaust

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Many bad things have happened in the past but nothing was compared to the holocaust also known as Shoah. This butchery happened over a period of time over twelve years, January 30th, 1933 to May 8th, 1945. The holocaust was created by Adolf Hitler and took place in several different countries like Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Greece, Norway and western Poland. Over six million jews were killed over the holocaust time period. But Hitler didn 't only kill jews, he killed many people like soviet POWS, Serbs, jehovah 's witnesses, homosexuals etc. The total amount of people killed was 11 million. (https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007457)
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The holocaust was when jews (etc.) were taken from homes and towns and sent on trains to concentration camps. At these concentration camps some were killed immediately in the gas chambers, but some had to do hard labor but most eventually died or got killed. Many people in these camps didn 't only die from the gas chambers; they died of disease, hunger, frostbite, sleep deprivation, etc. At these camps you had a bowl; if the bowl was lost or taken you would die because they would not give you food if the bowl was not

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