What does Shoah mean?

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Proper noun
  1. The systematic mass murder of 6 million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.
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Critics of the film found its use of comedy disrespectful to the victims of the Shoah and ultimately an attempt to deny the genocide.
The Shoah could be ordered because men had completely perverted the meaning of man.
How do you explain in fact that a commemoration of the Shoah is purely and simply cancelled, manifestly for political reasons?
Or does it voice all the tragedies of human existence, not only the Shoah?
Bearing this context in mind, it is no coincidence that the war in the Middle East is used for a relativization of the Shoah.
We appreciate that 20th century history is pockmarked with genocides, but the nature of the Shoah is specific and unique.

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