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A1: The nameThe Holocaust iscommon usage.Article titles follow subjects, not other articles. See also previous discussions on the question, linked in the move banner below.
Q2: The Holocaust was not only about Jews; the total death toll was more like 11+ million...
A2: As it says in thelead sentence which defines the scope of the article, the Holocaust "was the genocide of European Jews during World War II". As explained elsewhere in the lead and body, "Separate Nazi persecutions killed millions of other non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs)". As also explained in the lead and the body, "the termHolocaust is sometimes used to refer to the persecution of these other groups"; such uses of the termHolocaust constitute "significant minority views" as explained in Wikipedia'sWP:NPOV policy. In accordance with WP:NPOV policy, Wikipedia states the mainstream view in its own voice, while also explaining significant minority views."Reflections on Terminology for Holocaust Comparison". fromInternational Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. 2024. (PDF)
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As well as the Hebrew wordShoah, I would strongly suggest the Yiddish/Hebrew word Khurbn (חורבן), meaning 'destruction', be included; this is the word in the Yiddish language, and five of the six million murdered were Yiddish speakers. It places the Holocaust both within the pre-existing language of pogroms and also in the context of the destruction of the two temples in Jerusalem.VelvetCommuter (talk)14:14, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Holocaust scholars and reliable sources that cover the Holocaust define it as the genocide of European Jews that took place from 1941 to 1945, so that’s how we define it.
The scholarly consensus on the Holocaust was that it also included the attempt to rid Germany of numerous other groups in addition to Jews, including many specific ethnicities. This article should be cleaned up of all undue (incessant) original research by editors suggesting otherwise.~2026-68502-0 (talk)20:10, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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