In the late 1930's the Nazis killed thousands of handicapped Germans by lethal injection and poisonous gas. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, mobile killing units following in the wake of the German Army began shooting massive numbers of Jews and Roma (Gypsies) in open fields and ravines on the outskirts of conquered cities and towns. Eventually the Nazis created a more secluded and organized method of killing enormous numbers of civilians -- six extermination centers were established in occupied Poland where large-scale murder by gas and body disposal by cremation were systematically conducted. Victims were deported to these centers from Western Europe and from the ghettos in Eastern Europe which the Nazis had established. In addition, millions died in the ghettos and concentration camps as a result of forced labor, starvation, exposure, brutality, disease and execution.
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it is unclear whether you are asking what a 'policy of genocide' is, or was 'Hitler's policy' one of genocide. otherwise it answers itself: Hitler had a policy of genocide towards European Jews.
Read the passage below from Barack Obama's 2013 speech at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. What evidence does this excerpt provide to support the conclusion that Nazis pursued a policy of genocide toward Jews during World War
The Nazis and Hitler committed genocide on the European Jews.
The nazis killed their own citizens and those in surrounding countries - specifically those of the Jewish religion, gypsies, etc.
Adolf Hitler and the Nazis committed genocide during WW2, against the Jews.
the Russian genocide happened because Hitler and the Nazis planned an unexpected bombing in Russia and caused a war.
Soldiers found bodies piled up when they liberated the ectermination camps apex
Persecution of the Jews had happened before - though without the Nazis' ideoloical baggage, but genocide of the Jews was new. The thoroughness and fanaticism of it were also new.
Soldiers found bodies piled up when they liberated the extermination camps.
the Gypsies escaped the wrath of the Nazis No, they didn't.