History A-Level
Escalation of Nazi racial policy and the Holocaust
What Escalation of Nazi racial policy and the Holocaust means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Nazi racial policy escalated from exclusion, through the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and the November 1938 pogrom, to the Holocaust, the systematic murder of around six million Jews alongside Roma, Sinti and others.
Topics that use Escalation of Nazi racial policy and the Holocaust
- Aspects of life in Germany and West Germany, 1918–89 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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