Western Civilization II / Unit 17 WC2 1618 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Genocide, the Holocaust, and Six Million
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The idea
Genocide, a word adopted after the war, means systematic state murder of a people; the Holocaust was its industrialized form. About six million Jews died, two-thirds of Europe's and a third of the world's. Holocaust means sacrifice by fire; Shoah, catastrophe.
In practice
The Armenians and the Native Americans, the anchor's precedents.
Where people slip
"The only industrialized mass murder" is the anchor's claim.
Your place on the trail
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