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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.]]

The '''Holocaust''' is the term generally used in [[English language|English]] to describe the killing of approximately six million European [[Jews]] during [[World War II]], as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by the [[National Socialist]] regime in [[Germany]] led by [[Adolf Hitler]]. 

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Although the word "holocaust" has been widely used since the 17th century to refer to the violent death of a large number of people, since the 1950s its use has been increasingly restricted; it is now mainly used to describe the Nazi Holocaust, and is usually spelled with a capital H. It was brought into English in this sense as a translation of the [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] word ''[[Shoah]]'' (literally "Calamity"). The usual [[German language|German]] term for the extermination of the Jews during the Na(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]