This Day In History: Warsaw Uprising ends

Jews captured during the Warsaw ghetto being marched to a collecting point for deportation.

German soldiers walking by fires set in the Warsaw Ghetto, which was burned to the ground after the uprising in 1943. (Credit: Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)

Ghetto in Zychlin after the expulsion of Jews, 1942. (Credit: Laski Diffusion/Getty Images)

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<p>The Holocaust, during which some 6 million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and other people were systematically exterminated by Nazi Germany during World War II, was one of the most horrific war crimes ever committed.</p>


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<p>World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war dragged on for six bloody years until the Allies defeated the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy in 1945. Explore the battles, leaders and atrocities from the war and its impact on geopolitics and humankind.</p>


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