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The word was first used in December 1942 by the (London) News Chronicle to describe what the Nazis were doing to the Jews, but it spoke of 'a Holocaust', not 'the Holocaust'. Moreover, the word was not widely used at the time

Later there was an attempt to find a suitable word to replace the expression 'the Final Solution [of the Jewish Question]', which was the Nazis' own term for it.

The word Holocaust in this specific sense first came into widespread use around 1980, following the showing of a TV miniseries of the same name.

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