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THE HOLOCAUST

During the holocaust, the Nazis killed nearly 6 million European Jews. They also killed millions of other people. Shoah, the Hebrew term for the Holocaust, meant catastrophe. The Nazis also killed anyone who dared to oppose them and also the disabled, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and Slavic People. Eventually, the Jews had sometimes been segregated in ghettos or prohibited from owning land. The Nazis took power and quickly moved to deprive German Jews of many established rights. Soon in 1936, half of Germany's Jews were jobless. The Nazis banned Jews from doing any work which made the Jews have no income. In 1942, Nazi leaders met up to figure out the final solution of the Jews. They all decided on gathering all the people they were killing and put them in concentration camps and extermination camps. During the holocaust, World War II was going on and that's when America dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. In World War II, the automobile industry was uniquely suited to the mass production of military equipment. Automobile factories began producing trucks, jeeps, and tanks. The BMW was also used in the war.