Question

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Under the shadow of the Second World War, Germany had waged a genocidal war, which resulted in the mass

murder of selected groups of innocent civilians of Europe. The number of people killed included 6 million Jews,

200,000 Gypsies, 1 million Polish civilians, 70,000 Germans who were considered mentally and physically

disabled, besides innumerable political opponents. Nazis devised an unprecedented means of killing people, that

is, by gassing them in various killing centres like Auschwitz. The Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced only eleven

leading Nazis to death. Many others were imprisoned for life. The retribution did come, yet the punishment of

the Nazis was far short of the brutality and extent of their crimes. The Allies did not want to be as harsh on

defeated Germany as they had been after the First World War.


Q1 What do you understand by the term ‘genocidal’?

Q2many people were killed in Nazis regimes?

Q3 What was Auschwitz?

Q4 Who sentenced only eleven leading Nazis to death?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1.Genocidal-relating to or involving the deliberate killing of a large group of people of a particular nation or ethnic group.

2.mass murder of selected groups of innocent civilians of Europe. The number of people killed included 6 million Jews, 200,000 Gypsies, 1 million Polish civilians, 70,000 Germans who were considered mentally and physically disabled.

3.The Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust.

4.The Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced only eleven

leading Nazis to death.