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{{Crime infobox
| crime        = The Holocaust
| partof       = [[Second_World_War|World War II]]
| image        = Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-N0827-318,_KZ_Auschwitz,_Ankunft_ungarischer_Juden.jpg
| caption      = Hungarian Jews arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944
| perpetrators = [[Nazi Germany]] and collaborators
| date         = 1941–1945
| location     = Nazi-occupied Europe
| victims      = Jews, Roma, Slavs, disabled, political prisoners, LGBTQ+, others
| crime_type   = [[Genocide]], crimes against humanity
| deaths       = ~6 million Jews<br/>~Around 250,000 and 1.5 million Romani<br/>~Around 275,000–300,000 disabled people<br/>~9 million total
}}
'''The Holocaust''' or '''Shoah'''{{Efn|Means "catastrophic destruction" in Hebrew.}} was the [[Genocide|genocide]] of European Jews, Romani, Slavs, LGBTQ+ people, and disabled people during the [[Second_World_War|Second World War]]. From 1941 to 1945, the [[Fascism|Fascist-]][[Imperialism|Imperialist state]] [[German_Reich_(1933–1945)|of Nazi Germany]], along with collaborators and various allies, murdered 9 million people in Nazi-occupied Europe, using horrific means such as mass shootings, poison gas, starvation, and other means of murder.

== See also ==

* [[Imperialism]]
* [[Nazi_Germany|Nazi Germany]]
* [[Fascism]]
* [[Genocide]]
* [[Second_World_War|Second World War]]

== References ==
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===Notes===
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[[Category:Fascism]]
[[Category:Anti-Semitism]] 
[[Category:Genocide]]
[[Category:Anti-communism]]
[[Category:Racism]]
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