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  2. The Holocaust - Wikipedia

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    The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ) [1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה), was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.

  3. Functionalism–intentionalism debate - Wikipedia

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    In this essay, Mason called the followers of "the twisted road to Auschwitz"/structuralist school "functionalists" because of their belief that the Holocaust arose as part of the functioning of the Nazi state, while the followers of "the straight road to Auschwitz"/programmist school were called "intentionalists" because of their belief that it ...

  4. Catechism debate - Wikipedia

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    The Catechism Debate, also known as Historikerstreit 2.0, is a debate about German Holocaust remembrance initiated by Australian historian A. Dirk Moses with his 2021 essay "The German Catechism". [1] [2] [3] In the debate, Moses challenges the uniqueness of the Holocaust. [2]

  5. The Holocaust in Germany - Wikipedia

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    The Holocaust in Germany was the systematic persecution, deportation, imprisonment, and murder of Jews in Germany as part of the Europe-wide Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany. The term typically refers only to the areas that were part of Germany prior to the Nazi regime coming to power and excludes some or all of the territories annexed by ...

  6. Genocide studies - Wikipedia

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    Genocide studies is an academic field of study that researches genocide.Genocide became a field of study in the mid-1940s, with the work of Raphael Lemkin, who coined genocide and started genocide research, and its primary subjects were the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust; [1] the Holocaust was the primary subject matter of genocide studies, starting off as a side field of Holocaust ...

  7. Responsibility for the Holocaust - Wikipedia

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    However, the Holocaust perpetrators were fully aware of their hands-on killing and maiming of the victims. Milgram's guards did not know their victims and were not motivated by racism. On the other hand, the Holocaust perpetrators displayed an "intense devaluation of the victims" through a lifetime of personal development.

  8. Holocaust uniqueness debate - Wikipedia

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    Proponents of uniqueness argue that the Holocaust had unique aspects which were not found in other historical events. [20] [21] Historian Daniel Blatman sums up the uniqueness position as arguing it was the "only genocide in which the murderers' goal was the total extermination of the victim, with no rational or pragmatic reason", but Blatman and other scholars say this is not true of the ...

  9. The Holocaust and the Nakba - Wikipedia

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    The uniqueness of the Holocaust is emphasized, non-Jewish victims of Nazi Germany are sidelined, and any linkage between the Holocaust and the Nakba is rejected. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] According to Zionist historiography, the formation of the State of Israel in 1948 was the "culmination of the long Jewish quest for rights and justice". [ 18 ]