第二次世界大战犹太人受害的英文

第二次世界大战犹太人大屠杀不叫 Massacre，叫 Holocaust。犹太人大屠杀是纳粹德国在第二次世界大战中的种族清洗，也是二战中最多人熟悉的暴行之一，在这次大屠杀中，近600万犹太人被屠杀。犹太人大屠杀在英语和德语的名称为 Holocaust，此字是来自希腊语，意思是用火牺牲。犹太人则称其为 Shoah, 来自希伯来语，带“浩劫”的意思。
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The Holocaust
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The Holocaust is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a programme of deliberate extermination planned and executed by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler.

Other groups were persecuted and killed by the regime, including the Gypsies; Soviets, particularly prisoners of war; Communists; ethnic Poles; other Slavic people; the disabled; homosexuals; and political and religious dissidents. Many scholars do not include these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, defining it as the genocide of the Jews,[5] or what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Taking into account all