8 sentences with “murder”

Stalin is a far more enigmatic figure than Hitler, to whom he is often compared thanks to their respective legacies of mass murder.

Slaves were not usually killed outright, but this was because murder was seen as an offence to the gods, not because there were legal consequences.

Family politics may have been to blame for the assassination of Philip II, as his wife Olympias (Alexander's mother) may have ordered his murder, as well as the murder of his other wife and children.

Eventually, the housewife plucked up her courage and recognized the murder suspect in a photograph: it was Barry Glenn Williams, a 19-year-old stripling and leader of one of the city's most dangerous gangs.

In addition to the murder of the Jews, millions more were killed by the Nazis in the name of their ideology. While estimates vary, at least 250,000 Roma ("Gypsies") were murdered. At least 6,000 homosexual men were murdered.

Thus, although the Holocaust is, and should be, defined primarily as the genocide of European Jews by the Nazis, it is still appropriate to consider the other victims of Nazi ideology as one aspect of Nazi mass murder as a whole.

The promise of technology was realised in its most perverse form as the energy of advanced industrialism was unleashed in weapons of mass murder. World War II was also the scene of the Holocaust, the first and only incidence of industrialised mass murder in world history.

The term "Shoah", which means "catastrophe" in Hebrew, is also widely used. Its basic definition is simple: the brutal, ideologically motivated murder of approximately 6,000,000 Jews by the Nazi regime, representing two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe at the time, and one-third of the entire Jewish population of the world.