pogrom

Speech parts

1. pogrom - Noun

2. pogrom - Verb

Meaning

organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)

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If we had wanted to conduct a pogrom against the Jews, it would all have been over now. Ernst Hanfstaengl

No doubt the Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom. Neville Chamberlain

I believe the persecution arose out of two motives: a desire to rob the Jews of their money and a jealously of their superior cleverness. No doubt Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom. Neville Chamberlain

All the Jews needed to be expelled from the press, none of them could be allowed to work their poison in this way, one day I would see, on his restoration, what a pogrom there would then be, but of a different and more effective kind than all those in Galicia! Wilhelm II of Germany

Heydrich sent a telegram that night to various SD and Gestapo offices, helping to co-ordinate the pogrom with the SS, SD, Gestapo, uniformed police (Orpo), SA, Nazi party officials, and even the fire departments. Source: Internet

He provided detailed recommendations for a pogrom against them, calling for their permanent oppression and expulsion, writing "Their private houses must be destroyed and devastated, they could be lodged in stables. Source: Internet

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