Shoah

Shoah or Ha Shoah (literally denoting a "catastrophic upheaval") is the Hebrew term for the genocide of two thirds of the European Jewish population during the Holocaust.

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From Hitler's seize to power 1933 on, Jews were increasingly discriminated against, leading to the "Reichs-Kristallnacht. After the begin of World War II, more territories and terrains came under the influence of the Nazi movement, and in the Wannseekonferenz, the extermination of the Jews began.

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Kristallnacht: Kristallnacht, also known as Reichskristallnacht (literally Imperial Crystal Night), Pogromnacht and in English as The Night of Broken Glass, was a massive nationwide pogrom in Germany and Austria on the night of November 9, 1938 (including early hours of the following day). It was directed at Jewi...

Nazi: The term Nazi typically refers to someone who affiliates oneself with or is perceived to be affiliated with the ideology of the former National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly called NSDAP or the Nazi Party). The term can be used as a noun or...

Wannseekonferenz: REDIRECT Wannsee Conference...