Answer:During World War II, the German government, run by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, systematically murdered about 11 million people. This is what is known as a genocide, or the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular ethnic group with the aim of destroying that group. The majority of Holocaust victims were Jewish people.
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