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The Nazi Party and the "Jewish Question"

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The historical events, political decisions, economic implications, social processes and personal choices that took place in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 and led to the concentration camps and the planned extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, Freemasons, Soviet prisoners and homosexuals are hard to disentangle.

Word to Philosophy

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Martin Heidegger and his controversy.
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), author of Being and Time (1927), is one of the most influential philosophers of the past century, however there is a controversy regarding his choice to remain in Germany while the majority of his colleagues emigrated to the USA or to other countries because they were Jews, or persecuted by Nazis for their ideas.

Genocides throughout history

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Genocide of the Armenians (Medz Yeghern, “Great Crime”)
The Young Turks (nationalist officers of the Ottoman Empire) ordered massive massacres against the Armenian Christian population between 1915 and 1923. Subsequent mass deportations will bring the number of victims to about one and a half million.

Genocide of the peoples of China 

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