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Meaning of holocausto



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

holocausto
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Name by which the persecution and extermination of the Jewish people is known, sponsored by the Nazis during World War II. Genocide of the Jewish people by the Nazis. In Hebrew it is called Shoa and translates catastrophe. For the Nazis it was the "Final Solution" of the Jewish question (Endlösung).

  



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This word has a convoluted history. In Spanish – and other languages – it is immediately associated with the "Jewish Holocaust", the genocide committed by the Nazi regime not only against Jews but also against Gypsies, Communists, disabled, . . . Also the term extends to any massacre provoked, and of large dimensions (such as a "nuclear holocaust", produced by the detonation of atomic bombs). But in its Greek origin 959; 955; 959; 962; ( holos "all, completely" ) 954; 945; 953; 969; (kaíoo "burned") form a voice appearing in the 'Bible of the Seventy' for the "ritual sacrifice of an animal, incinerated so that its smoke rises to God". Although there was no offering to any divinity during World War II, it was a term used by politicians in Allied countries – perhaps with a propaganda sense – to define the crimes of the Third Reich, and has since become popular.

  










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