![]() ![]() ![]() To begin to comprehend the Nazis' actions, however, one must first consider and understand the theoretical underpinnings that led them to conceive of such plans in the first place. Examining the Nazi ideology of race partly explains this relentless commitment to the physical annihilation of the European Jews. Much has been written about what took place during the era of the Holocaust and where, when, and how the Nazis carried out their murderous plans. The Germans and their collaborators were relentless in hunting down and killing Jews in the areas of Europe that they controlled. Tens of thousands of Jews also survived in German-occupied Europe mostly in hiding or as prisoners in concentration camps until liberation. Even this statistic is misleading, because most of those who survived resided in areas of Europe not occupied by Germany during the war: eastern areas of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Bulgaria, and neutral states like Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and Sweden. When World War II ended in 1945, six million European Jews were dead more than one million of the victims were children. ![]() They slated all of Europe's Jews for destruction: the sick and the healthy, the rich and the poor, the religiously orthodox and converts to Christianity, the aged and the young, even infants.Ībout two out of every three Jews living in Europe before the war were killed in the Holocaust. Driven by a racist ideology that regarded Jews as “parasitic vermin” worthy only of eradication, the Nazis implemented genocide on an unprecedented scale. It was the premeditated mass murder of millions of innocent civilians. The Holocaust is an event central to our understanding of western civilization, the nation state, modern bureaucratic society, and human nature. ![]()
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