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The Holocaust was a period of time during the 20th century, the early 1930s through the mid-1940s to be exact, in which millions of Jews were exterminated only because they were different from the leaders of Germany at that time, the Nazi party. The Holocaust movement ran for twelve years. Beginning in 1933 when Adolf Hitler gained power, the Holocaust continued all the way through 1945. During this time, the Nazi party believed in a policy called the "Final Solution." This plan was a callous and ruthless strategy that called for all people of Jewish faith to be weeded out of society in hopes that the Nazi party could create a more pure race of people in Germany. The Nazis believed that Jews were inferior and that they were a stain on the human race. They, therefore, tried to demolish to Jews in order to attempt to create a more perfect race. This plan caused much havoc toward Jewish individuals during the period of World War II. The Holocaust killed millions, but it hurt many more not only physically, but also emotionally. Some Jews that were sent to concentration camps during the war came back home after World War II. Many of them, however, were too emotionally scarred to continue back with a life as it had been prior to the great destruction the Nazi Party cast down upon the Jewish nation. Simply put, the Holocaust was a time of hatred, a time of anti-Semitism, a time of death.
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