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Holocaust mostly denotes the Nazi genocide of 5.6 to 6.3 million European Jews. Germans and their helpers carried it out systematically from 1941 to 1945, and from 1942 also with industrial methods, with the aim of murdering all Jews in German power. This crime against humanity was based on the anti-Semitism propagated by the state and the corresponding racist legislation of the Nazi regime. In the Nazi ideology, the genocide of the Jews since the attack on Poland has been justified as "the destruction of life unworthy of life". The final decision to murder all Jews was made in close connection with the war of extermination against the USSR from the summer of 1941.
