Ethnic Cleansing in Europe - The Holocaust, Srebrenica Massacre, Flight and Expulsion of Germans (1944-1950), World War II Persecution of Serbs, Bo (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 115. Chapters: The Holocaust, Srebrenica massacre, Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944-1950), World War II persecution of Serbs, Bosnian Genocide, Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, Ethnic cleansing of Circassians, Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany, Kori ani Cliffs massacre, List of massacres in the Kosovo War, Fo a massacres, Italianization of South Tyrol, Ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War, The Destruction of the Thracian Bulgarians in 1913, Persecution of Croats in Serbia during the war in Croatia, Saborsko massacre, Fikret Ali, Identity cleansing, Doljani massacre, trpci massacre, Kalmyk deportations of 1943, Gnjilane Group, Bela Crkva massacre, Glogova massacre, Gora devac murders. Excerpt: The Holocaust (from the Greek: holos, "whole" and kaustos, "burnt") also known as the Shoah (Hebrew: , HaShoah, "catastrophe"; Yiddish: , Churben or Hurban, from the Hebrew for "destruction"), was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, throughout German-occupied territory. Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds were killed. Over one million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust, as were approximately two million Jewish women and three million Jewish men. A network of over 40,000 facilities in Germany and German-occupied territory were used to concentrate, hold, and kill Jews and other victims. Some scholars argue that the mass murder of the Romani and people with disabilities should be included in the definition, and some use the common noun "holocaust" to describe other Nazi mass murders, including those of Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, and homosexuals. Recent estimates based on...