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The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.
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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)
Schutzstaffel
Nazi paramilitary organisation (1925–1945)
The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi leader of the SS (1900–1945)
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was a German Nazi politician and military leader who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, a leading member of the Nazi Party, and one of the most powerful people in Nazi Germany. He was one of the main architects of the Holocaust.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Romani people
Indo-Aryan ethnic group
The Romani people, also known as the Roma or the Romani are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Although they are widely dispersed, their most concentrated populations are believed to be in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Auschwitz concentration camp
Nazi concentration camp in Poland (1940–1945)
Auschwitz, also known as Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)