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Revision as of 18:56, 13 February 2010 by Igny (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Holocaust literally means "completely consumed by fire". Primarily, the term refers to the Holocaust, mass murders of Jews and other social and ethnic groups by Nazis in 1933-1945.
The term is sometimes used to refer to:
- Mass killings other than the Holocaust
- Armenian Holocaust, the first genocide described as a holocaust
- Red Holocaust or Communist Holocaust, mass killings under Communist regimes
- Cambodian Holocaust, the communist genocide in Cambodia
- African Holocaust, the enslavement and extermination of Africans by Europeans
- American Holocaust, the extermination of the native Americans by Europeans
- Holocaust (sacrifice), a burnt offering
- Death by burning, especially as a form of mass murder or mass destruction
- Holocaust (TV miniseries)
- Holocaust (comics)
- Holocaust (band)
- Nuclear holocaust, massive atomic bombing with global impact. This phrase was commonly used during the Cold War to refer to the possibility of worldwide nuclear annihilation and mutually assured destruction.
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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