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The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the systematic state-sponsored persecution and murder of Jews and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II, roughly from 1933 to 1945. While it primarily targeted Jews, the regime also sought to eradicate Roma and Sinti, disabled people, political dissidents, LGBTQ individuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Poles, Soviet civilians and prisoners of war, and others considered "undesirable" or enemies of the state.
The persecution began with intensified anti-Jewish propaganda and legal discrimination, including the Nuremberg Laws of 1935
Mass murder occurred across concentration and extermination camps established or controlled by the regime. Extermination camps,
About six million Jews were murdered, representing a vast majority of European Jews. Non-Jewish victims included
Liberation by Allied forces in 1944–1945 uncovered the scale of the crimes. The Holocaust remains a central