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What Are The Atrocities Of The Holocaust

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Many atrocities occurred during the holocaust, especially in concentration camps. Victims of the holocaust were mostly Jewish. There were also political prisoners, such as Communists and Socialists, common criminals, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals and disabled or medically ill people. Prisoners in concentration camps had to wear specific coloured triangles on their clothes so that the guards and officers of the camps could easily identify each prisoner’s background and pit the different groups against each other. Most camps used prisoners for forced labour which led to many people dying. The prisoner’s food rations didn’t let them survive for very long and anyone who resisted an order from a guard was shot on the spot. Many

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