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The Final Solution: A Policy Of The Holocaust

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The holocaust was the persecution and murder of specifically Jews, but also Roma, or Gypsy, mentally or physically disabled patients, homosexuals, and more by the Nazi regime. During this period, the Nazis believe that Germans were the “superior race” and the Jewish were the “inferior race.” According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million… By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews…” Additionally, in order to persecute and murder these other groups, specifically the Jewish, the Nazis created a policy called the “Final Solution,” which was their plan to annihilate the Jewish people. As a result of this policy,

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