The Holocaust was the persecution and systematic murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, in which about six million Jewish men, women and children were killed. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Jews were progressively excluded from public life by laws such as the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, and the violence of Kristallnacht in November 1938 marked a new level of terror. After the outbreak of war, Jews were confined in ghettos and shot in mass killings by mobile units in the occupied Soviet Union. From 1942, they were deported to extermination camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka and Sobibor. The Nazis also persecuted and murdered Roma, people with disabilities, Soviet prisoners of war, Poles and other groups. The camps were liberated by Allied armies in 1944 and 1945.
Before and after
- 20 November 1932Construction of Estádio Couto Pereira
- 1933Discovery of Harbin cranium
- 1933Construction of Sydney Airport
- 1933Origins of Ligue 2
- from 1933 to 1945The Holocaust
- 1933Construction of Lacoste
- 1933Enabling Act of 1933
- 1933Construction of Heydar Aliyev International Airport
- 1933Karl Jansky detects radio waves from the Milky Way
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