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[[image:ac.auschwitz.jpg|frame|thumb|300px|Jews emerge from a train on the platform at Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, where about one million people, mostly Jews, were killed between [[1942]] and [[1944]]. The photograph was taken, contrary to a strict prohibition on photography at the camps, from the roof of one of the box-cars by a German guard.]]

(contracted; show full)Rwandan]] Holocaust" and "[[Cambodia|Cambodian]] Holocaust" are also used to refer to the [[Genocide in Rwanda|Rwanda genocide]] of [[1994]] and the mass killings of the [[Khmer Rouge]] regime in Cambodia respectively. Recently the term "[[Palestinian Holocaust]]" has been coined to draw a comparison between the Nazi Holocaust and alleged [[Israel|Israeli]] crimes against the [[Palestine|Palestinians]]. Jewish organizations see this comparison as false and offensive. 

==Origins==

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[[image:ac.meinkampf.jpg|thumb|250px|Adolf Hitler, Chancellor and Führer of Germany 1933-1945, whose career was driven by his obsessive anti-Semitism. His 1925 autobiography ''Mein Kampf'' gave ample warning of his hatred of the Jews.]]⏎
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The [[Nazi Party]] under [[Adolf Hitler]] came to power in Germany in January [[1933]], and persecution of German Jews began almost immediately, causing about half of all German Jews to leave the country before [[1939]]. During the 1930s the legal, economic and social rights of Jews were steadily restricted, and many Jews, particularly political and intellectual leaders, were sent to [[concentration camps]], where most of them were eventually killed or died. Before [[1939]], however, there was no systematic(contracted; show full)
*[http://holocaust-info.dk/statistics/ Detailed breakdown of Holocaust victim statistics]
*[http://www.uwm.edu/~baugrud/helpfiles/concamps.html Info on victim tracing services]
*[http://www.jewishgen.org/GerSig/holocaust.htm Links to sites listing victims and survivors from specific German communities and concentration camps] 
*[http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/5960/names.html Link to searchable online victim database from Augsburg]