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Overview of the Holocaust (1933–1945)

The Holocaust, defined by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as occurring from 1933 to 1945, began with the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany and ended with the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Allied Powers. The Nazi regime implemented increasingly radical antisemitic measures, culminating in the 'Final Solution,' which led to the systematic mass murder of six million European Jews between 1941 and 1945. This period was marked by political transformation and aggressive territorial expansion, ultimately triggering World War II.

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Overview of the Holocaust (1933–1945)

The Holocaust, defined by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as occurring from 1933 to 1945, began with the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany and ended with the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Allied Powers. The Nazi regime implemented increasingly radical antisemitic measures, culminating in the 'Final Solution,' which led to the systematic mass murder of six million European Jews between 1941 and 1945. This period was marked by political transformation and aggressive territorial expansion, ultimately triggering World War II.

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum defines the years of the Holocaust as

1933–1945. The Holocaust era began in January 1933 when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi
Party came to power in Germany. It ended in May 1945, when the Allied Powers
defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. The Holocaust is also sometimes referred to as
“the Shoah,” the Hebrew word for “catastrophe.” When they came to power in Germany,
the Nazis did not immediately start to carry out the mass murder of Jews. However, they
quickly began using the government to target and exclude Jews from German society.
Among other antisemitic measures, the Nazi German regime enacted discriminatory
laws and organized violence targeting Germany’s Jews. The Nazi persecution of Jews
became increasingly radical between 1933 and 1945. This radicalization culminated in a
plan that Nazi leaders referred to as the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” The
“Final Solution” was the organized and systematic mass murder of European Jews. The
Nazi German regime implemented this genocide between 1941 and 1945.
By the end of the Holocaust, the Nazi German regime and their allies and collaborators
had murdered six million European Jews.

The rise of Nazism in Europe, culminating in World War II, was a period of rapid political and
ideological transformation, ultimately leading to the devastating conflict. The Nazi Party's rise to
power in Germany in the 1930s, led by Adolf Hitler, was fueled by economic instability,
nationalist sentiment, and the promise of restoring national pride, according to the Holocaust
Encyclopedia and the Holocaust Explained. This culminated in Hitler's appointment as
Chancellor in 1933, followed by the establishment of a dictatorship and the persecution of Jews,
political opponents, and other "undesirable" groups. Aggressive territorial expansion, including
the invasion of Poland in 1939, triggered the European phase of World War II.

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