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The Holocaust is the systematic slaughter of not only 6 million Jews the primary victims, but also 5 million others, approximately 11 million individuals wiped off the Earth by the Nazi regime - cut off because of racism and hate.
The Holocaust was the extermination of people not for who they were but for what they were. Groups such as handicaps, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents and others were persecuted by the Nazis because of their religious/political beliefs, physical defects, or failure to fall into the "Aryan" ideal.
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