Holocaust
See also: holocaust
English
Etymology
See holocaust.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
the Holocaust (usually uncountable, plural Holocausts)
- (historical, strictly) The systematic mass murder (genocide) of 6 million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.
- (historical, broadly) The systematic mass murder (democide) of 11 million people, namely 6 million Jews and 5 million others (including Romanis, Slavs, homosexuals, and people with physical and mental disabilities), perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Holocaust.
Usage notes
- Whether the term "Holocaust" is a designation for the mass murder of 11 million people or the genocide of 6 million Jews is contested.[1]
- 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
- (mass murder of 6 million Jews): Shoah
- the Nazi genocide
Hypernyms
- (mass murder of 6 million Jews): holocaust, genocide, mass murder
- (mass murder of 11 million people): holocaust, democide, mass murder
Hyponyms
- (mass murder of 11 million people): Shoah (mass murder of Jews)
- (mass murder of 11 million people): Homocaust
- (mass murder of 11 million people): Porajmos (the genocide of the Roma)
Derived terms
Translations
the mass murder of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany
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the mass murder of 11 million people by Nazi Germany
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See also
- The Holocaust on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- at Wikipedia: Nazi persecution of Romanis (Porajmos), Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, blacks, Poles, Soviet prisoners-of-war, and homosexuals
- concentration camp
- ethnic cleansing
- final solution
- Meds Yeghern
References
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English Holocaust, from French holocauste, from Latin holocaustum, from the neuter of Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Holocaust m
Derived terms
Related terms
German
Alternative forms
- Holokaust (rare)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhoːloˌkaʊ̯st/[1], IPA(key): /ˌholoˈkaʊ̯st/[1]
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Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Holocaust m (proper noun, strong, genitive Holocausts)
- (historical) the Holocaust
Noun
Holocaust m (genitive Holocausts or Holocaustes, plural Holocausts)
- a holocaust
- 1999, Barbara S. Brucker, Das Ganze, dessen Teile wir sind. Zu Tradition und Erfahrung des inneren Raumes bei Doris Lessing, Königshausen & Neumann, page 110:
- Denn, was im vorliegenden Fall als Science-Fiction und nuklearer Holocaust dargestellt wird, kann als Metapher für das moralisch durchseuchte Leben unserer Zivilisation verstanden werden.
- 2005, Maria Rührnschopf (geb. Friedrich), Glaubst du das? Ein Konfirmand fragt seine Großmutter, Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt, page 23:
- Warum ließ er [= Gott] die Holocausts unseres Jahrhunderts zu?
- 2006, Holger Freiherr von Dobeneck, Das Sloterdijk-Alphabet. Kritisch-lexikalische Einführung in seinen Ideenkosmos. Zweite stark erweiterte Auflage., Königshausen & Neumann, page 16:
- In diesem Prozeß des post histoire gegen die eigene Vergangenheit macht Amerika mit seiner Sklaverei, seinem Indianerholocaust und seinem Ausbeutungskolonialismus wahrlich keine gute Figur.
- 2007, Erhard Roy Wiehn, Bleibende Warnungen III - Gesammelte Vorworte, Vorträge und Artikel 2004-2007, Hartung-Gorre Verlag Konstanz, page 192:
- Wohl zurecht fragt Mykola Rjabtschuk, warum "eine nationale Katastrophe wie der Holodomor (1932/33) - der Hungerholocaust - in der Ukraine für die Ukrainer nicht zu dem wurde, was für die Juden die Shoah oder für die Armenier das Massaker von 1915 geworden ist."
- 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:
- Der amerikanische Holocaust, dem im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert Millionen von Indios zum Opfer fielen, wird ästhetisiert:
- 1999, Barbara S. Brucker, Das Ganze, dessen Teile wir sind. Zu Tradition und Erfahrung des inneren Raumes bei Doris Lessing, Königshausen & Neumann, page 110:
Derived terms
- atomarer Holocaust, nuklearer Holocaust
- Babycaust
- Bombenholocaust
- Holocaustforschung / Holocaust-Forschung
- Holocaust-Geschichte
- Holocaust-Industrie
- Holocaustleugnung
- Holocaustleugner / Holocaust-Leugner
- Holocaustlüge / Holocaust-Lüge
- Holocaustreligion
- Holocaust-Schwindel
- Holocaustüberlebender / Holocaust-Überlebender
- Hungerholocaust
- Roter Holocaust
References
Further reading
- “Holocaust” in Duden online
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