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The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
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The Holocaust
Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Treblinka extermination camp
Nazi extermination camp in Poland (1942–1943)
Treblinka was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, four kilometres south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship. The camp…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nazism
German fascist ideology
Nazism, formally named National Socialism, is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During Hitler's rise to power, it was frequently referred to as Hitler Fascism and Hitlerism. The…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Extermination camp
Nazi death camps established to systematically murder
Nazi Germany used six extermination camps, also called death camps, or killing centers, in Central Europe, primarily in occupied Poland, during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million people—mainly Jews—in the Holocaust. The victims of death camps were primarily…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)