Holocaust

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1)  The systematic mass murder (genocide) of six million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.
 * 2)  The systematic mass murder (democide) of somewhere between eleven and fourteen million people, namely six million Jews and from five to eight million others (including Romanis, Slavs, homosexuals, and people with physical and mental disabilities), perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.

Usage notes

 * Whether the term "Holocaust" is a designation for the mass murder of all groups systematically targeted by the Nazis, or only the genocide of six million Jews, is contested.
 * The genocide of the European Jews may be unambiguously referred to as the Shoah. The genocide of the Romani people has the specific designation Porajmos.

Synonyms

 * the Nazi genocide
 * the Nazi genocide

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Sjoa, Volkslagting, Uitwissing, Jodeslagting, Joodse Volksmoord, Holocaust
 * Arabic: الْهُولُوكُوسْت, الْمَحْرَقَة الْيَهُودِيَّة
 * Aragonese: Holocausto
 * Armenian: Հոլոքոստ
 * Asturian: Holocaustu
 * Azerbaijani: Holokost, Yəhudi soyqırımı
 * Belarusian: Халако́ст
 * Bulgarian: Холокост
 * Catalan: Holocaust
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 猶太人大屠殺
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish: Holocaust, jødeudryddelse
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: Holokaŭsto, Ŝoaho
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ჰოლოკოსტი
 * German:, , , Massenmord an den europäischen Juden, ,  ,
 * Greek: Ολοκαύτωμα
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: Helförin
 * Irish: Uileloscadh
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ユダヤ人大虐殺
 * Ladino: Olokosto, Shoa
 * Latin: Soa
 * Latvian: Holokausts, Šoā
 * Lithuanian: Holokaustas, Šoa
 * Norwegian: Holocaust
 * Polish:, Holokaust
 * Portuguese:, Shoá
 * Romanian: Holocaust
 * Russian:, Холоко́ст,
 * Spanish:, Shoá
 * Swedish: Förintelsen, Shoah
 * Turkish: Holokost, Yahudi Soykırımı
 * Vietnamese: Holocaust
 * Welsh: Holocost
 * Yiddish: חורבן אייראָפּע, חורבן,  האַלאָקאַוסט


 * Afrikaans: Holocaust
 * Arabic: الْهُولُوكُوسْت
 * Armenian: Հոլոքոստ
 * Azerbaijani: Holokost
 * Catalan: Holocaust
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: Holocaust
 * Esperanto: Holokaŭsto
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ჰოლოკოსტი
 * German:
 * Greek: Ολοκαύτωμα
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Japanese: ホロコースト
 * Polish:, Holokaust
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, Холоко́ст
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: Holokost
 * Vietnamese: Holocaust


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Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from , from the neuter of.

Etymology
. Popularized through the American TV production  (1978, first broadcast in Germany in January 1979), it was selected word of the year in Germany in December 1979.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the Holocaust

Noun

 * 1) a holocaust
 * 2) * 2005, Maria Rührnschopf (geb. Friedrich), Glaubst du das? Ein Konfirmand fragt seine Großmutter, Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt, page 23:
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- Warum ließ er [&equals; Gott] die Holocausts unseres Jahrhunderts zu?


 * 1) * 2011, Sylvia Tschörner, Das virtuelle Barock des Herrn P.C.: Der seidende Schuh von Paul Claudel, in: Göttliche, menschliche und teuflische Komödien. Europäische Welttheater-Entwürfe im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Albert Gier (ed.), University of Bamberg Press, page 171:
 * "de"
 * 1) * 2011, Sylvia Tschörner, Das virtuelle Barock des Herrn P.C.: Der seidende Schuh von Paul Claudel, in: Göttliche, menschliche und teuflische Komödien. Europäische Welttheater-Entwürfe im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Albert Gier (ed.), University of Bamberg Press, page 171:
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- Der amerikanische Holocaust, dem im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert Millionen von Indios zum Opfer fielen, wird ästhetisiert:

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