A loose alliance of European powers pledged to uphold the
The Holocaust. The Nazi determination to rid Europe of Jews was rooted in the anti-Semitism of Central and Eastern Europe. From the earliest years of the Third Reich Jews were persecuted and from 1941 onwards a programme of extermination began, with certain camps in Eastern Europe equipped with gas-chambers for systematic slaughter. It is estimated that four million Jews died in these camps. Perhaps a further million died in ghettos by starvation and disease and over a million were shot by mobile killing squads (Einsatzgruppen).
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principles of the Christian religion. It was proclaimed at the Congress of Vienna (1815) by the emperors of Austria and Russia, and the king of Prussia. All other European leaders were invited to join, except the pope and the Ottoman sultan. The restored French king Louis XVIII did so, as did most others; Britain did not. As a diplomatic instrument it was short-lived and never effective and it became associated with repressive and autocratic regimes.
- Broglio, Luigi (1911–2001)
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