the Holocaust: Destruction and Jewish Suffering during World War II
Words: 2617 1131World War II (1939-1945) witnessed one of the darkest chapters in human history: the Holocaust. Under Nazi Germany's rule, a state-sponsored, systematic persecution and murder of six million European Jews—approximately two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population—was carried out with industrial efficiency. This genocide, which the Nazis called "the Final Solution to the Jewish Question," represented an unprecedented attempt to eliminate an entire people based on racial ideology. This essay examines the development of Nazi extermination policies, with particular focus on the […]