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The victims of the Holocaust were people attacked by the Nazi German government through
various discriminatory practices due to their ethnic origin, religion, political beliefs or sexual
orientation.
The main people most attacked by the Nazi government were: Jews, homosexuals, Jehovah's
Witnesses and the disabled.
A holocaust can be caused by a way of thinking or an idealism, such as the Jewish holocaust. They
held the Jews responsible for their hardships and convinced themselves that it was part of a global
conspiracy against them, in an unlikely alliance with communism and with the German socialists of
the Weimar republic. The articulation of this racist and violent thought was the key to Hitler's
appearance as a leader, political, military and spiritual guide. He managed to expand that thought
and unleashed chaos. In this way, the holocaust would be the consequence of the need for a
scapegoat to justify the poverty that was reduced after the First World War.
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-It is estimated that the Germans murdered a third of the Jews living in Europe in 1939, so that the
European Jewish community was weakened and deeply traumatized by the experience suffered.
-Although the figures are not exact, some 6 million Jews are believed to have been victims of the
Holocaust. Approximately 5 million more people were killed in the death camps, totaling about 11
million.
-The Holocaust led the United Nations to push for the creation of the State of Israel, so that Jews
scattered around the world would have a place to establish their homeland.