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SHOAH – The process of a racist antisemitic war Avner Shalev, Director of Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, the world center for documentation, research, and education of the Holocaust), used the word Shoah” for the Nazi murderous war only against the Jews, when, in June 2013, at the opening of Yad Vashem’s exhibit at the Jewish Holocaust Museum at Auschwitz, he stated: The Holocaust of the Jewish people, Shoah, the attempt to annihilate the Jewish people. … racist ideology … was the main driving force behind the destruction of the Jewish people.

Shalev does not use the word “Holocaust,”

It should be noted that many scholars and teachers, especially in Europe, now use the specific term Shoah for the persecution and murder of six million Jews. For example, in Germany the term Shoah is only used to refer to the genocide of Jews under the Nazis, whereas Holocaust includes other victim groups, too.

The most tragic result of the Shoah was the destruction of two thirds of European Jewry, one third of the Jewish people, their culture and way of life gone forever. “The twelve years of the Nazi regime, from its rise in 1933 to its demise in 1945, represent the most tragic era in Jewish history. … Of the total world Jewish population of eighteen million in 1939, one in three had been killed.” (Gutman, Yisrael at Yad Vashem, ed. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1990; p. 666).

HOLOCAUST – The process of a racist, exclusive, and ideological war “The Holocaust is an extreme example of the context of despair. It was motivated by a murderous ideology.” http://www.manskligarattigheter.gov.se/stockholmforum/2000/page898.html Nazism or National Socialism was the ideology behind the Holocaust. Therefore, the racist national domestic, and international goals of the main perpetrator, Nazi Germany led by Hitler, and the characteristics of Nazism determined the definition of the Holocaust and its victims.” Y. Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust. “Holocaust” refers, not to an event, but to the geo-political process of the war against the Jews and others/ undesirable groups/non-Jews - “The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. … By war's end, almost six million Jews and millions of others had perished in the Holocaust” (the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm). Elie Wiesel appropriately declared: “Not all the victims of the Holocaust were Jews, but all Jews were victims. Conclusion, it is best when referencing the total number of victims of the Holocaust to say 6 million Jews and millions of others. All Holocaust organizations are making a united move to adhere to this message.” Indeed, as per the historical record, the Holocaust was an ideological murderous process and war against all the Jews and other “Undesirables,” by a barbaric regime bent on an ‘Aryan’ world domination and a racial utopia. “The Nazis pursued a strategic vision of a dominant German race ruling subject peoples” (ushmm). Professor Saul Friedlander at UCLA, correctly stated: National Socialism/Nazism tried to determine who should and should not inhabit the world. Yehuda Bauer, academic advisor at Yad Vashem, its former Director, and a most respected authority on the subjects of the Holocaust, explained: the Holocaust {was} a defining moment in European and world history. … Nazism did not just inflict horrendous suffering on many millions of people, but it proposed to reorganize humanity according to race, all over the globe, and that ideology, did and does not endanger the Jews only. That global project of Nazi Germany's new world order demanded "Aryanization," enslavement and annihilation of Jews, Christians and "Undesirables" (“threats” or enemies of the German state such as political and religious dissidents, Afro-Germans, Roma-Sinti/Gypsies, the physically and mentally challenged, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, some of the Slavic peoples - Catholic Poles, Russians, Soviet prisoners of war-, Jewish and African American POWS, and others), who were targeted by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between the years of 1933-1945 for religious, racial, political, ideological and behavioral reasons. However, at the center of the Holocaust, was the Final Solution aimed solely at the Jews.

“Every Jew that we can lay our hands on is to be destroyed now during the war, without exception. …obliterate the biological basis of Jewry” (SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler). “… we say that the war will not end as the Jews imagine it will, namely, with the uprooting of the Aryans, but the result of this war will be the complete annihilation of the Jews” (Adolf Hitler Speech at the Berlin Sportspalast, January 30, 1942; after the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942). On March, 27, 1942, Joseph Goebbels wrote admiringly in his diary: No other government and no other regime would have the strength for such a global solution of this question. Regarding the Jews, the Nazis were equal opportunity killers. (Bauer).

The priority target was indeed the Jews, wherever the Nazi regime and its collaborators could find them. From political Europe (including the overseas European possessions of Italian Libya, and pro-Nazi Vichy North Africa), to the Middle East and Asia (Iraq and Shanghai), there was no exception in the Nazi regime's attempt to murder every last Jew within its grasp. “All Jews were victims,” correctly declared Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

“Totality – all Jews everywhere, those who had three or four Jewish grandparents, were to be killed for the reason that they had been born. Globality.”(Bauer at Yad Vashem) Henia Perlman (talk)

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Reinhard Heydrich convened the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942 in Berlin's Wannsee suburb, to discuss the final solution (Endlösung) of the Jewish question, a euphemism for the attempt to murder Jews, wherever the Nazi regime could get to them, and irrespective of geographic borders. It brought together Nazi leaders, from the party and government departments responsible for policies linked to Jewish issues. The conference's initial purpose was to discuss plans for a comprehensive solution to the "Jewish question in Europe." Heydrich meant for the conference to share information among the officials so they would all share responsibility.

A copy of the minutes survives, but on Heydrich's instructions, they were written in "euphemistic language" so the exact words used are not known. But Heydrich announced that the final solution of the “European Jewish Question” would involve some 11million Jews living not only in territories controlled by Germany, inclusive of French North Africa ruled by pro-Nazi Vichy France, but in Ireland, Great Britain, and Turkey

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The Vichy regime [] in occupied France actively collaborated with the Nazi regime in persecuting the Jews of metropolitan France [] and those of French Algeria and the two French Protectorates of Tunisia and Morocco,[116] in French North Africa. When the French Protectorate of Tunisia was occupied by S.S. Walter Rauff [] and its Einsatzkommando [], from November 1942 till may 1943, the Jewish population was terrorized, 5,000 Jews were subjected to forced labor,[117] and some of them were deported to the Nazi death camps in Poland. .[citation needed]

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In Shanghai, there were about 20,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, because they could emigrate there without a visa. Shanghai Jewish RefugeesAfter the Wannsee conference, Hitler’s Germany sent SS-Colonel Joseph Meisinger, the “Butcher of Warsaw to Shanghai, and forced the Japanese ruler, an ally of the Third Reich, to put all the Jews in a ghetto, to be called the Hongkew ghetto. ShanghaiGhettoBut, the Japanese government ignored the Nazis, and didn’t murder the Jews, who left Shanghai after 1945.

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In Shanghai, there were about 20,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, because they could emigrate there without a visa. After the Wannsee conference, Hitler’s Germany sent SS-Colonel Joseph Meisinger, the “Butcher of Warsaw to Shanghai, and forced the Japanese ruler, an ally of the Third Reich, to put all the Jews in a ghetto, to be called the Hongkew ghetto. But, the Japanese government ignored the Nazis, and didn’t murder the Jews, who left Shanghai after 1945.

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The Holocaust, was the ideological persecution of millions of Jews, Christians, and other Undesirables (blacks, the Romani, physically and mentally disabled, some of the Slavic people, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents, and others), who were targeted by the Nazi regime and its collaborators, between the years of 1933-1945, for racial, political, ideological and behavioral reasons. The primary target/victims were the Jews, wherever Nazi Germany and its collaborators could find them in the world. By war’s end, approximately six million Jews (two thirds of European Jewry - one-third of the Jewish people), and millions of others had perished in the Holocaust. Hundreds of Jewish communities in Europe disappeared forever in the Holocaust of the Jewish people, also referred to as the the Shoah,. A narrower definition of Holocaust includes only the Jews as victims of Nazi ideology: The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of six million Jews by Hitler’s Germany and its collaborators, and the near destruction of European Jewry.

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I posted this message at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.–CaroleHenson (talk) 15:06, 22 June 2017 (UTC)