mass extermination

"The Nazis chose Poland as the site of the planned mass extermination of people, above all, of Jews… we see the Holocaust not only as a national tragedy for the Jewish people but as a catastrophe for all of humanity."

In 1942 they added the nearby Birkenau part, with gas chambers and crematoria, as a mass extermination site, mostly of Europe’s Jews.

Höss's witness statement at Nuremberg was significant because while other senior officers denied offences and defended the actions of the Third Reich, he stated on the record the actions of the Nazis and the mass extermination of the Jewish people.

The scope of our destruction is vast—from the mass extermination of wildlife and the birth of ocean dead zones resulting from excessive nutrient pollution, to the contamination of water bodies with heavy metal and plastics, and the 350,000-plus synthetic chemicals bioaccumulating up the food chain.

For Glazer, evil comes not in the form of larger-than-life world-historical figures but as a ladder-climbing middle manager who goes home after a day of overseeing mass extermination and reads his kids bedtime stories, while his shallow wife casually tries on the clothes of the recently murdered to see if any look good on her.