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In what year did the Holocaust start?

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In what year did the Holocaust start?

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1942, coinciding with the decision at the so-called Wansee Conference in Jan. 1942, where Reinhard Heydrich had convened all the top SS and Nazis leaders to come up with the ‘final solution to the Jewish question.’ Some may argue that it started earlier with Jewish persecutions going on in the 30’s, but the key date of jan 1942 started the high volume state-sponsored extermination of European Jewry, AKA the Holocaust..