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Extermination camps were used to murder Jews during the Holocaust.
was a commercial pesticide whose lethal agent was (HCN); in pellet form it released HCN gas when exposed to air, killing by blocking cellular respiration at the mitochondrial level and rapidly deprivi...
The short answer is: not in the narrow, historical sense of , but many scholars, historians, advocates, and some detainees argue that runs large-scale, state-sanctioned systems of mass detention that ...
The claim "" is false: the Holocaust is one of the most thoroughly documented genocides in history, supported by documents, investigations, survivor testimony, forensic evidence, and demographic resea...
Estimates of how many survived the Holocaust are imprecise because historians disagree on the size of the population targeted, the number sent to camps, and death rates; surviving cohorts ranged from ...
Jehovah’s Witnesses were a distinct category of non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution who suffered imprisonment, deportation to concentration camps, torture, and execution because they refused to ple...
The claim that Holocaust deaths totaled only collapses under a convergence of documentary, demographic, forensic, testimonial and legal evidence assembled since 1945; specialists place Jewish fataliti...
Historians treat "" as a descriptive category with multiple, historically rooted definitions—key recurring elements are mass detention of civilians, detention outside normal judicial process, targetin...
The leadership—including officers such as —did explore territorial “solutions” that envisaged expelling or concentrating Jews outside , most notably the Plan which was developed in 1940 and later aban...
Between 1933 and 1945 the systematically sought to subordinate, co‑opt, marginalize and, in many cases, annihilate religious communities that conflicted with its racial and political ideology; it comb...
Forensic confirmation that in Nazi extermination camps rests not on a single smoking-gun test but on the convergence of multiple independent lines of physical, chemical, archaeological and documentary...
The mapping of figures on the eve of was profoundly distorted by the border changes, annexations and occupations of 1938–1939: some country totals simply absorbed Jewish populations through annexation...