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Who was responsible for the Holocaust?
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- Fri Sep 05 2003

... Who was responsible for the Holocaust? One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century is undoubtedly the mass annihilation of the Jews in the Holocaust, with over six million being killed between 1939 and 1945. The killings did not start immediately as the process of elimination was gradual, in April 1933 Hitler introduced a one-day national boycott of Jewish shops and businesses, but the boycott failed to gain the support of the population as many Germans were either sympathetic or indifferent towards the Jews. Though this was to change as the Nazi regime tightened its repressive grip. It was after Kristallnacht in November 1938 where the violence towards the Jews escalated dramatically and soon Jews were being transported to concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Maidnek. Over two million Jews were murdered in Auschwitz and a further 1.3 million in Maidnek. After the Second World War many historians assumed that














