yes, many European countries expelled Jews from their lands over the previous thousand years. Look up (for example) the inquisition.
Judenrein is a term in German meaning "free of Jews." It was used by the Nazis to describe areas or territories where all Jewish people had been removed or exterminated. The term is associated with the Holocaust and the ethnic cleansing policies of the Nazi regime.
He was cleansing the Jews from Europe. It was his lifelong dream being fulfilled.
The term "ethnic cleaning" or "ethnic cleansing" was not applied until the wars following the breakup of Yugoslavia in the late 20th century. So the Nazi genocide was not called ethnic cleansing, although today you could use that term to describe it. At the time, the Nazis called it "solving the Jewish problem" and other euphemisms. When initially widely recognized by the populations of the allies, it was called murder.
The term ethnic cleansing means the removal of one particular ethnic group from an area or country usually by force and violence. Hitler wanted to ethnically cleanse Germany of the Jews in the 1940s.
Among other ethnic minorities, yes it did.
"Ethnic Cleansing" would be considered a propaganda term used by Hitler in order to meet his final goal of an Aryan race. Genocide is the proper name given to this type of mass murder. Used by Public Relations to show that it was not just sending others out of the country and such. During the war, around 6,000,000 Jews died.
holocaust
It was when the German Nazi Party killed millions of Jews. The Nazis leader "Adolf Hitler" called it ethnic cleansing.
Yitzhak Arad has written: 'The Holocaust in the Soviet Union' -- subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), History, Historiography, Jews, Persecutions, Antisemitism, Ethnic relations 'Kholokaust' -- subject(s): Historiography, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews, History 'Ghetto in flames' -- subject(s): Vilnius (Lithuania), Jews, Ethnic relations, Persecutions
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The correct spelling is holocaust. When used to describe the genocide of Jews and other ethnic populations during World War II, it is capitalized Holocaust.
About 6 million out of 9.4 European Jews were murdered by the Nazis.