In the late twentieth century, the term Holocaust has come to refer to the extermination (or genocide) of an estimated six million Jews and the mass murder of about five million other civilians by Nazi Germany and other Axis powers in the years leading up to and during World War II. Among the others murdered were homosexuals, communists, and ethic Roma?, Russians, Poles and other Slavs.
In the late twentieth century, the term Holocaust has come to refer to the extermination (or genocide) of an estimated six million Jews and the mass murder of about five million other civilians by Nazi Germany and other Axis powers in the years leading up to and during World War II. Among the others murdered were homosexuals, communists, and ethnic Roma?, Russians, Poles and other Slavs.
Never before in the history of humanity has there been such a large logistic? and systematic effort for the sole purpose of extermination of human life. Meticulous notes were kept. One of the main 'coordinators' of the mass deportations was Adolf Eichmann, who managed to escape to Argentina after the war but was later kidnapped by the Israeli Secret Service and sentenced to death in Israel.
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Never before in the history of humanity has there been such a large logistic and systematic effort for the sole purpose of extermination of human life. Meticulous notes were kept. One of the main 'coordinators' of the mass deportations was Adolf Eichmann, who managed to escape to Argentina after the war but was later kidnapped by the Israeli Secret Service and sentenced to death in Israel.