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This is the time period of WWII, which is when Nazi Germany sent many groups of people to concentration camps, most notably the Jewish people. This is known as the Holocaust and a total of 6,000,000 Jews perished.

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The greatest contribution was probably the simple fact that the majority of them
had been murdered during the first half of that Century, and the secondary fact that
this particular aspect of recent history had caused many of the survivors to seriously
re-think the question of whether they really wanted to continue living there.

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The Holocaust (1939-1945). Six million Jews were killed.

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