*Picture**Picture: Home Top Menu* *Picture: Shop* *Picture: Products* *Picture: Tech Support* *Picture: Customer Service* *Picture: Mail* *Picture: GI Information* *Picture: GI Home**Picture: Iwo Jima * Holocaust HOLOCAUST, a term for the methodical persecution, enslavement, and extermination of European Jewry by Nazi Germany. An estimated 6 million Jews died in the years from 1933 to 1945. Europe had a history of anti-Semitism, but the Holocaust was unique in scope, barbarity, and concentration on the annihilation of one people (…showed first 75 words of 693 total…

…showed last 75 words of 693 total…civilized world cared to admit. This gave rise to theological questions that trouble Jewish and non-Jewish religious thinkers. The Nuremberg trials held immediately after World War II avoided assigning responsibility for the Holocaust, but later war-crimes trials--many sparked by the capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann--have dealt directly with the Holocaust and its perpetrators. Seymour Rossel Author of The Holocaust | Main WWII Article | World War II Home Page | Bibliography Seymour Rossel Author of The Holocaust