The Holocaust of World War II

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As we know, the World War II was the great war that we will never forget. The war, which slay millions people, even innocent children whose know nothing about what was going on. The war that brought the greatest holocaust to this world. This worse holocaust started in Germany by a man named Adolf Hitler, who concluded that the Jews were the nationality which made the German people impoverished. Consequently, the war broadened all over the world which including Japan, America, Russia,and Australia.
What is Holocaust? The word 'Holocaust', from the Greek word 'holokauston' meaning "a burnt sacrifice offered to God", in this case it refers to a sacrifice Jews. Nowadays the 'Holocaust' usually refers to the large-scale killings of the Jews, nonetheless it is also used to refer to another genocide as well. The holocaust activated by Adolf Hitler, who be permeated with the vindictiveness of the Jews. After he created Anti-Semitism in Germany and killed most of the Jews in Germany. Afterwards he continued to spread Anti-Semitism all over Europe. He desired of power to rule the world, and had killed more than 20 million people during World War II. He had made the wrong decision ever, as he adjudged that all the Jews were trumpery, barren, and witless, hence he decided to extirpate the Jews all over the world. He concluded that all of the undesirable people need to be killed, as has been mentioned he manufactured many concentration camps or death camps all over Europe.
“Undesirable people” a lot of people might think, what does this word really mean, does it only referred to Jews? Actually undesirable people during World War II were not only Jews, but also including Gypsies, homosexual, and even Slavic people. These people were consi...

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