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holocaust beggining
the holocaust began in germany after adolf hitler was appointed chancellor in january 1933. -
start of the holocaust
the holocaust was systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million european jews by the nazi german. -
the final solution
The “Final Solution” was the organized and systematic mass murder of European Jews. -
Germany territorial expansion
Prewar and wartime territorial expansion eventually brought millions more Jewish people under German control. Nazi Germany’s territorial expansion began in 1938–1939. -
foreign policy
Germany pursued an aggressive foreign policy. This culminated in World War II, which began in Europe in 1939. -
the ghettos
the ghettos where created and where areas of cities or towns where german occupiers forced jews to live live in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. -
holocaust ending
The Holocaust ended in May 1945 when the major Allied Powers (Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union) defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. -
aftermath
While the Holocaust ended with the war, the legacy of terror and genocide did not. By the end of World War II, six million Jews and millions of others were dead