This word has a convoluted history. In Spanish and other languages it is immediately associated with the "Jewish Holocaust", the genocide committed by the Nazi regime not only against Jews but also against Gypsies, Communists, disabled, . . . Also the term extends to any massacre provoked, and of large dimensions (such as a "nuclear holocaust", produced by the detonation of atomic bombs). But in its Greek origin 959; 955; 959; 962; ( holos "all, completely" ) 954; 945; 953; 969; (kaíoo "burned") form a voice appearing in the 'Bible of the Seventy' for the "ritual sacrifice of an animal, incinerated so that its smoke rises to God". Although there was no offering to any divinity during World War II, it was a term used by politicians in Allied countries perhaps with a propaganda sense to define the crimes of the Third Reich, and has since become popular.