Holocaust

From Hobson's Choice

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The Holocaust was a genocide committed between September 1939 and the summer of 1945 of an estimated 11 million people, mostly Europeans. This site uses the term "Holocaust" to refer to all of the organized mass murders of the Third Reich/Axis, including the:

Shoah (massacre of Jews)
O Porrajmos (massacre of Rroma)
Genocide of Soviet POW's
Ustashe Genocide (Axis state of Ustashe Croatia)
Elimination of "Unfit Life" (euthanasia)

Genocide is a disturbingly widespread phenomenon in the history of the Trans-European Project, and surprisingly few reliably documented cases of it occur outside the scope of TEP history. Of these, the one best known to everyone is the Nazi Holocaust, particularly its mass homicide of Jewish Europeans. This site reserves the word Shoah for the planned extermination of the Jews, and uses "the Holocaust" to refer to the entire demographic killing of the European Axis. While Jews [per s] were by far the most numerous victims of the Holocaust, they constituted about half its victims (or a third, if one counts victims consistently).^[1]