Question

humanitys most heinous crime, the holocaust, was carried out from 1933 till 1945 by 200,000 fanatics acting on orders of adolf hitlers nazi regime, but it was also abetted by a cross - bigotry and sense superiority then affecting many germans. the toll included an estimated six million jews - one - fourth of them children - and five million other people the nazis regarded as \minderwertig\ (\inferior\). they were primarily ethnic poles, captured soviet civilians and prisoners of war, other slavs, romanis, communists, homosexuals, jehovahs witnesses, and the mentally and physically disabled. the mass murder was carried out by gas or shooting in extermination facilities located in germany and german - occupied territories. the great purge in the former ussr - union of soviet socialist republics - was carried out from 1936 to 1938 on orders of the communist party chairman and soviet dictator josef stalin. the main victims of the moscow show trials were communist officials and upper echelons of the countrys red army, some of whom confessed to crimes they had not committed. the purge terrorized the entire soviet civil service and other leading members of the society, such as intellectuals, writers, academicians, artists, and scientists. according to declassified soviet archives, during 1937 and 1938, the state police detained 1,548,366 persons, of whom 681,692 were shot: an average of 1,000 executions a day. some historians believe that the actual executions were two to three times higher. guiding questions question 5 of 9 what do different witch hunts often have in common? a witch hunts rely on creative thinking and technology. b important progress is made despite the loss of life. c guilty people are convicted alongside innocent people. d people are unjustifiably persecuted and/or killed.

Explanation:

Witch - hunts involve the unjust persecution and often killing of people, usually based on unfounded accusations. This is similar to the unjust treatment in historical events like the Holocaust and the Great Purge.

Answer:

D. People are unjustifiably persecuted and/or killed.