The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.
During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived racial and biological inferiority: Roma (Gypsies), people with disabilities, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.
civ·ics
[ˈsiviks]
NOUN
BRITISH
the study of the rights and duties of citizenship.
synonyms:
political science · statecraft · statesmanship · polity
According to Churchill, Britain's position in the world greatly declined after World War II, since Britain had by this time lost much of its empire, and the United States had become the most dominant power in the west.
