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How did the Nazi state organize the Holocaust?

How a modern state turned persecution into extermination.

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Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction

Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazi regime organized the murder of 6 million Jews, two thirds of the Jews of Europe. In Hebrew, Shoah means “catastrophe.”

This genocide was not disorderly violence. It was a state process, built step by step, from legal exclusion to industrial killing.

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  1. 2From discrimination to exclusion (1933-1939)
  2. 3The invasion of the USSR and the shootings
  3. 4Wannsee: organizing murder across a continent
  4. 5The toll and the duty of memory
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