Question

In the context of Germany, what is ‘Holocaust’?
A) Nazi propaganda
B) Nazi Honour Crosses
C) Nazi killing operations
D) A Nazi school

Answer 1

Hint: The Holocaust was a phase that began with Jewish persecution and ended with the killing of millions of people because of who they were. It was a process which, over time, became increasingly brutal.

Complete answer:
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was the persecution of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies systematically murdered some six million Jews in German-occupied Europe, about two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe. The massacres took place in pogroms and mass shootings; through a policy of genocide through work in concentration camps; and in gas chambers and gas vans in the German extermination camps, particularly in the occupied Poland of Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka.

The persecution was introduced by Germany in stages. On 30 January 1933, following the election of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor, the regime developed a network of concentration camps for political enemies and others considered 'undesirable' in Germany, beginning with Dachau on 22 March 1933.The government began isolating Jews from civil society after the passage of the Enabling Act on 24 March, which gave Hitler plenary powers, including the boycott of Jewish companies in April 1933 and the adoption of the Nuremberg Laws in September 1935. On 9-10 November 1938, eight months after Germany annexed Austria, during what became known as Kristallnacht, Jewish businesses and other buildings were ransacked or set on fire in Germany and Austria (the "Night of Broken Glass"). During World War 2, in Nazi Germany, the Holocaust was a genocide. Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis murdered six million Jews.

Thus, the answer is option ‘C’ i.e, Nazi killing operations.

Note: The government set up ghettos to segregate Jews after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, sparking World War II. Thousands of camps and other detention centres were eventually built in German-occupied Europe.