How long was the Holocaust?

Answer 1

The Holocaust in the sense of systematic exterminationlasted from 1941 till 1945. (Jews had been persecuted in Germany since 1933).

June 1941 (with the start of the activities of the mobile killing units behind German lines in the Soviet Union) till May 1945, when the last concentration camps were liberated.

Answer 2

The actual execution of the Holocaust lasted from around early 1938 until 1945. Jews and other ethnic groups were separated out from other prisoners of the Reich early on, and until a month before VE Day (May 8, 1945), trains were still bringing Jews to the open camps from ones that had closed. Other Jews died in forced death marches.

The major acts of the perpetrators lasted from 1933 (when Hitler was elected) until 1961 (when Eichmann was on trial in Jerusalem)

Eichmann was tried for for crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was found guilty and hanged at Ramleh on May 31, 1962. A fellow Nazi reported Eichmann once said that he "would leap laughing into the grave, because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction."

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The Holocaust refers to the Nazi genocide of the Jews and that ended in 1945. Extending it till Eichmann's exeecution make no sense whatever.
From 1933-1945

Answer 3

The holocaust was in the 1930s and 40s...a little more than 70-80 years ago. Before that, pograms persecuted groups of ethnic peoples.

Answer 4

1933-1945 but from 1933-1940 their wasn't much murders, so 12 years. or 5 years if you only want the years off mass murder

Answer 5

12 years