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The Holocaust was a state-sponsored campaign of systematic murder carried out by the Nazi regime. During this period, the Nazis implemented the "final solution," a plan to eliminate the Jewish population of Europe. This genocide resulted in the murder of 6 million Jewish people across 21 countries.1