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Racial persecution and the Holocaust

What Racial persecution and the Holocaust means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.

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Racial persecution escalated and led to the Holocaust.

OCR · Germany 1925–1955: The People and the State (J410/02) - War and its legacy 1939–1955

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Germany 1925–1955: The People and the State (J410/02) - War and its legacy 1939–1955 (OCR GCSE)

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