The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of various ethnic, religious and political groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to murder every possi ...

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• The Holocaust - Etymology and usage of the term
• The Holocaust - Features of the Nazi Holocaust
• The Holocaust - Premeditation
• The Holocaust - Efficiency
• The Holocaust - Scale
• The Holocaust - Cruelty
• The Holocaust - Victims
• The Holocaust - Jews
• The Holocaust - Slavs
• The Holocaust - Roma Sinti and Manush 'Gypsies'
• The Holocaust - Gay men
• The Holocaust - Jehovah's Witnesses
• The Holocaust - Disabled people
• The Holocaust - Others
• The Holocaust - Death toll
• The Holocaust - Searching for records of victims
• The Holocaust - Execution of the Holocaust
• The Holocaust - Concentration and Labor Camps 1933-1945
• The Holocaust - Pogroms 1938-1941
• The Holocaust - Euthanasia 1939-1941
• The Holocaust - Ghettos 1940-1945
• The Holocaust - Death Squads 1941-1943
• The Holocaust - Extermination camps 1942-1945
• The Holocaust - Death Marches and liberation 1944-1945
• The Holocaust - Resistance and Rescuers
• The Holocaust - Resistance
• The Holocaust - Rescuers
• The Holocaust - Historical interpretations
• The Holocaust - Who was directly involved in the killings?
• The Holocaust - Why did people participate in authorize or tacitly accept the killing?
• The Holocaust - Revisionists and deniers
• The Holocaust - Aftermath
• The Holocaust - Displaced Persons and the State of Israel
• The Holocaust - Legal proceedings against Nazis
• The Holocaust - Legal action against genocide
• The Holocaust - Impact on culture
• The Holocaust - Holocaust theology
• The Holocaust - Art and literature
• The Holocaust - Holocaust Memorial Day
• The Holocaust - Notes
• The Holocaust - Resources

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The Holocaust, The Holocaust - Etymology and usage of the term, The Holocaust - Features of the Nazi Holocaust, The Holocaust - Premeditation, The Holocaust - Efficiency, The Holocaust - Scale, The Holocaust - Cruelty, The Holocaust - Victims, The Holocaust - Jews, The Holocaust - Slavs, The Holocaust - Roma Sinti and Manush 'Gypsies', The Holocaust - Gay men, The Holocaust - Jehovah's Witnesses, The Holocaust - Disabled people, The Holocaust - Others, The Holocaust - Death toll, The Holocaust - Searching for records of victims, The Holocaust - Execution of the Holocaust, The Holocaust - Concentration and Labor Camps 1933-1945, The Holocaust - Pogroms 1938-1941, The Holocaust - Euthanasia 1939-1941, The Holocaust - Ghettos 1940-1945, The Holocaust - Death Squads 1941-1943, The Holocaust - Extermination camps 1942-1945, The Holocaust - Death Marches and liberation 1944-1945, The Holocaust - Resistance and Rescuers, The Holocaust - Resistance, The Holocaust - Rescuers, The Holocaust - Historical interpretations, The Holocaust - Who was directly involved in the killings?, The Holocaust - Why did people participate in authorize or tacitly accept the killing?, The Holocaust - Revisionists and deniers, The Holocaust - Aftermath, The Holocaust - Displaced Persons and the State of Israel, The Holocaust - Legal proceedings against Nazis, The Holocaust - Legal action against genocide, The Holocaust - Impact on culture, The Holocaust - Holocaust theology, The Holocaust - Art and literature, The Holocaust - Holocaust Memorial Day, The Holocaust - Notes, The Holocaust - Resources

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There were several characteristics to the Nazi Holocaust which, taken together, distinguish it from other genocides in history. The Holocaust - Premeditation. In 1904, Alfred Ploetz founded the German Eugenics Society. Sixteen years later, a work seminal to the development of the German eugenics movement, The Permission to Destroy Life Unworthy of Life, was published. Written by Karl Binding, a widely respected judge, and renowned psychiatrist Alfred Hoche, the work was key to the formulation of Naz ...

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The Holocaust, The Holocaust - Etymology and usage of the term, The Holocaust - Features of the Nazi Holocaust, The Holocaust - Premeditation, The Holocaust - Efficiency, The Holocaust - Scale, The Holocaust - Cruelty, The Holocaust - Victims, The Holocaust - Jews, The Holocaust - Slavs, The Holocaust - Roma Sinti and Manush 'Gypsies', The Holocaust - Gay men, The Holocaust - Jehovah's Witnesses, The Holocaust - Disabled people, The Holocaust - Others, The Holocaust - Death toll, The Holocaust - Searching for records of victims, The Holocaust - Execution of the Holocaust, The Holocaust - Concentration and Labor Camps 1933-1945, The Holocaust - Pogroms 1938-1941, The Holocaust - Euthanasia 1939-1941, The Holocaust - Ghettos 1940-1945, The Holocaust - Death squads 1941-1943, The Holocaust - Extermination camps 1942-1945, The Holocaust - Death marches and liberation 1944-1945, The Holocaust - Resistance and rescuers, The Holocaust - Resistance, The Holocaust - Rescuers, The Holocaust - Perpetrators and collaborators, The Holocaust - Who was directly involved in the killings?, The Holocaust - Who authorized the killings?, The Holocaust - Who knew about the killings?, The Holocaust - Historical interpretations, The Holocaust - Why did people participate in authorize or tacitly accept the killing?, The Holocaust - Revisionists and deniers, The Holocaust - Aftermath, The Holocaust - Displaced Persons and the State of Israel, The Holocaust - Legal proceedings against Nazis, The Holocaust - Legal action against genocide, The Holocaust - Impact on culture, The Holocaust - Holocaust theology, The Holocaust - Art and literature, The Holocaust - Holocaust Memorial Days, The Holocaust - Notes, The Holocaust - Nazi plans related to the Holocaust, The Holocaust - Eugenics, The Holocaust - Individuals and the Holocaust, The Holocaust - Nazi concentration camps, The Holocaust - Ghettos, The Holocaust - Massacres and pogroms, The Holocaust - Jewish resistance

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world. Founded in 1980 as a non-profit organization, it has its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, and a stated 850,000 members and over 100 employees worldwide. Outside the U.S., there are affiliated offices in the UK, [1] India, [2] Germany, [3] Asia, and the Netherlands. [4] There is also peta2 Street Team for high school and college-age activists. [5] Ingrid Newkirk is PETA's international president. PETA focuses on fo ...

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• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - PETA's philosophy
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - History
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Campaigns
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Criticism of PETA
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Targeting of vulnerable groups
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Support of extremists and terrorists
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Response to a suicide bombing
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Use of nudity
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Animal cruelty and euthanasia

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Alfred Rosenberg (January 12, 1893–October 16, 1946) was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi party, who later held several important posts in the Nazi government. At Nuremberg he was tried and sentenced to death as a war criminal. He is considered the main author of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, Lebensraum, abolition of the Versailles Treaty, and opposition to "degenerate" modern art. Alfred Rosenberg - Early career. Born t ...

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• Alfred Rosenberg - Early career
• Alfred Rosenberg - Racial theories
• Alfred Rosenberg - Religious theories
• Alfred Rosenberg - Wartime activities
• Alfred Rosenberg - Nazi Policy and Rosenberg's Views
• Alfred Rosenberg - Family life

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Carnivàle is an American dramatic television series produced by HBO. Created by Daniel Knauf, it stars Nick Stahl and Clancy Brown. The shown ran from 2003-2005. The series is a period drama set in the United States during the Great Depression. It has an overarching story about the battle between good and evil as well as the struggle between free will and destiny. Carnivàle - Overview. At the beginning of the first episode, the carnival's manager (a dwarf named Samson) says: "Be ...

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• Carnivàle - Overview
• Carnivàle - Cancellation
• Carnivàle - Cast
• Carnivàle - Episode guide
• Carnivàle - Season 1 2003
• Carnivàle - Season 2 2005
• Carnivàle - The Gospel of Knauf Avataric Rules
• Carnivàle - Genealogy of Scudder and Belyakov lines
• Carnivàle - Lawsuit

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August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. August 4 - Events. 1265 - The Battle of Evesham of the Second Barons' War is fought in Worcestershire, with the army of future King Edward I of England defeating the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and killing de Montfort and many of his allies. This is sometimes considered the death of chivalry in England. 1578 - Battle of A ...

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• August 4 - Events
• August 4 - Births
• August 4 - Deaths
• August 4 - Holidays and observances

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by evan haworth-staines The Atlantic slave trade was the capture and transport of black Africans into bondage and servitude in the New World. It is sometimes called the Maafa by African Americans. This term means holocaust or great disaster in kiswahili. The slaves were one element of a three-part economic cycle—the Triangular Trade and its infamous Middle Passage—which ultimately involved four continents, four ...

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• Atlantic slave trade - Origins
• Atlantic slave trade - Abolition of the Atlantic slave trade

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The civil rights movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The movement has had a lasting impact on United States society, both in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights it brought about and its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism. It has been made up of many movements, though it most often refers to the struggles between 1945 and 1970 to end discrimination against African-American ...

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• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The Niagara Movement and the founding of the NAACP
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The American Jewish community and the civil rights movement
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The New Negro
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The Labor movement and civil rights
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The Left and civil rights
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The Scottsboro Boys
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The NAACP
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - And see

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Religion (see etymology below) —sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system—is commonly defined as belief concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine; and the moral codes, practices, values, institutions and rituals associated with such belief. In its broadest sense some have defined it as the sum total of answers given to explain humankind's relationship with the universe. In the course of the development of religion, it has taken ...

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• Religion - Etymology
• Religion - Religion and science
• Religion - Philosophy and metaphysics
• Religion - Esotericism and mysticism
• Religion - Spirituality
• Religion - Myth
• Religion - Approaches to the study of individual religions
• Religion - Methods of studying religion subjectively in relation to one's own beliefs
• Religion - Methods of studying religion objectively in a scientific and religiously neutral fashion
• Religion - Development of religion
• Religion - Religion today
• Religion - Approaches to relating to the beliefs of others
• Religion - Exclusivism
• Religion - Inclusivism
• Religion - Pluralism
• Religion - Syncretism
• Religion - Universalism
• Religion - Systemization
• Religion - Religion and other approaches to forming beliefs about the nature of the universe
• Religion - Related philosophical stances
• Religion - Compare with

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Theodicy is a branch of theology that studies how the existence of a good or benevolent God is reconciled with the existence of evil. An attempt to reconcile the co-existence of evil and God is sometimes called "a theodicy". See the article on the problem of evil for examples. Theodicy - Origin of the term. The term theodicy comes from the Greek θεός (theós, "god") and δί ...

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• Theodicy - Origin of the term
• Theodicy - The problem of evil
• Theodicy - The nature of God
• Theodicy - Examples of theodicy
• Theodicy - Analysis of these solutions
• Theodicy - The free will theodicy
• Theodicy - The Calvinistic theodicy
• Theodicy - Relativity of goodness — evil is not absolute
• Theodicy - Human nature
• Theodicy - God is not omnipotent or omniscient
• Theodicy - Contemporary philosophy of religion
• Theodicy - General problems with all theodicies
• Theodicy - Hindu answers to the problem of evil
• Theodicy - Against theodicy
• Theodicy - Evidential arguments from evil

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The Civil Rights Movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to primarily African American citizens of the United States. There have been many movements on behalf of other groups in the U.S. over time, but the term is often used to refer to the struggles between 1955 and 1968 to end discrimination against African-Americans and to end racial segregation, especially in the U.S. South. See African American for informati ...

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• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Background
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - The murder of Emmett Till
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Mass action replaces litigation
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Desegregating Little Rock
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Sit-ins and freedom rides
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Organizing in Mississippi
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - The Albany movement
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - The Birmingham campaign
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - The March on Washington
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Mississippi Freedom Summer
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Selma and the Voting Rights Act
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - The American Jewish community and the civil rights movement
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Fraying of alliances
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Race riots
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Black power
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Memphis and the Poor People's March
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Footnotes
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Documentary films

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Much of the film's original controversy surrounded the use of gratuitous killing of animals for sake of portraying that killing on film. The first such scene in the movie shows the killing and flaying of a large and screaming rat by an actor. The most extended and infamous scene shows a large turtle (1.5m long) being captured in the water and dragged to shore, where it is then decapitated and its limbs and shell removed. The actors then proceed to cook and eat the turtle. Another scene shows a small monkey being captured by a native actor portraying a cannibal, who cuts the monkey ...

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Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Holocaust - Controversy, Cannibal Holocaust - Cast, Cannibal Holocaust - Plot, Cannibal Holocaust - Interpretations, Cannibal Holocaust - Film Connections

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The acts of murder and of cruelty in the camp reached their peak in the late summer of 1942, when tens of thousands of Serbian villagers were deported to Jasenovac from the area of the fighting against the partisans in the Kozara mountain (in Bosnia). Most of the men were killed at Jasenovac. The women were sent for forced labor in Germany, and the children were taken from their mothers; some were ...

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Jasenovac concentration camp, Jasenovac concentration camp - Prelude, Jasenovac concentration camp - The camp, Jasenovac concentration camp - Mass murder and cruelty, Jasenovac concentration camp - End of the camp, Jasenovac concentration camp - Victim counts, Jasenovac concentration camp - Demise of the Ustaše, Jasenovac concentration camp - Later events, Jasenovac concentration camp - Bibliography

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During World War I, in many countries, propaganda attempted to dehumanize the German enemy. The Germans were depicted as Huns capable of infinite cruelty and violence. See Main Article Organised persecution of ethnic Germans When Australia, Canada, and the United States entered the war, some German-American immigrants were looked upon with suspicion and attacked regarding their loyalty. In England, anti-German sentiment was so severe that the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha became the House of Windsor, Battenberg became Mountba ...

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Anti-German sentiment, Anti-German sentiment - World War I, Anti-German sentiment - Anti-German sentiment due to World War II, Anti-German sentiment - Postwar Germany

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Germany's practice of "euthanasia" did not end in 1941. Doctors and nurses continued the practice at hospitals around Germany and Austria. Killings and intentional neglect were conducted in such a way to minimize the suspicion of the German population. However, no such precautions were taken when exterminating people of the occupied territories. Acts of cruelty and violence were reported and recorded. Doctors and nursing personnel involved in the euthanasia program were not always brought to justice. Long after the creation of the new ...

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T-4 Euthanasia Program, T-4 Euthanasia Program - Establishment and purpose, T-4 Euthanasia Program - History of the program, T-4 Euthanasia Program - Legacy, T-4 Euthanasia Program - Key figures, T-4 Euthanasia Program - Key concepts

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Germany's practice of euthanasia did not end in 1941. Doctors and nurses continued the practice at hospitals around Germany and Austria. Killings and intentional neglect were conducted in such a way to minimize the suspicion of the German population. However, no such precautions were taken when exterminating people of the occupied territories. Acts of cruelty and violence were reported and recorded. Doctors and nursing personnel involved in the euthanasia program were not always brought to justice. Long after the creation of the new G ...

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T-4 Euthanasia Program, T-4 Euthanasia Program - Establishment and purpose, T-4 Euthanasia Program - History of the program, T-4 Euthanasia Program - Legacy, T-4 Euthanasia Program - Key figures, T-4 Euthanasia Program - Key concepts

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PETA is well known for its aggressive media campaigns, public demonstrations, and attacks on large corporations for their alleged mistreatment of animals. In 2003, PETA received media attention for its boycott of Kentucky Fried Chicken. PETCO and Procter & Gamble are other examples of companies PETA says are exploiting animals for profit. According to PETA, PETCO confines animals in filthy enclosures, where they are commonly left to die, and Procter & Gamble tests its products on animals. On April 12, 2005, PETA announced it had ended its boycott against PETCO, in pa ...

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - PETA's philosophy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - History, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Campaigns, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Criticism of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Targeting of vulnerable groups, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Support of extremists and terrorists, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Response to a suicide bombing, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Use of nudity, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Animal cruelty and euthanasia

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The humane attitude towards the slaughtered animal expressed in shechita law limits the extent to which Jewish slaughterhouses can industrialize their procedures. The most industrialized attempt at a kosher slaughterhouse, AgriProcessors of Postville, Iowa, became the center of a controversy in rabbinical interpretation in 2003, after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released undercover ...

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Shechita, Shechita - Animal Welfare controversies

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In the summer of 1942, when the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto began, Kossak-Szczucka published a leaflet entitled "Protest," which was printed in 5,000 copies. In the leaflet she described in graphic terms the conditions in the Ghetto, and the horrific circumstances of the deportations then taking place. "All will perish," she wrote. "Poor and rich, old, women, men, youngsters, infants, Catholics dying with the name of Jesus and Mary together with Jews. Their only guilt is that they were born in to the ...

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Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka - Writer and activist, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka - The Protest, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka - Later career, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka - Debate on Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka - Notes

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