Read the following statements (I, II & III) carefully:
I. The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War-II.
II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German occupied Europe.
III. One of the Nazis' most repeated political slogans was - Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer "One People, One Empire, One Leader."
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Read the following statements (I, II & III) carefully: 
I. The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War-II. 
II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German occupied Europe. 
III. One of the Nazis' most repeated political slogans was - Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer "One People, One Empire, One Leader." 
The correct option is :

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The correct option is 2: Statement I, II and III are correct.
All three statements accurately reflect established historical facts regarding Nazi Germany and The Holocaust. Statement I is correct because "The Holocaust," meaning a complete burning, is the widely accepted term for the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It is also correctly referred to by the Hebrew term *Shoah*, which means "catastrophe." Statement II precisely covers the main phase of the extermination, known as the "Final Solution." Although persecution began earlier (1933), the period from 1941 to 1945 marks the time when the policy shifted to outright, industrialised mass murder through death camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau and mass shootings by *Einsatzgruppen*, resulting in the estimated death toll of six million Jews. Finally, Statement III correctly identifies *Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer* ("One People, One Empire, One Leader") as a central Nazi propaganda slogan. This phrase encapsulated their totalitarian and ultra-nationalist ideology: demanding a racially pure "One People," unified under a geographically expanded "One Empire," and led by the single, infallible dictator, "One Leader" (Hitler).

The incorrect option is 1: Statement I and III are correct, Statement II is incorrect.
This option is incorrect because it falsely claims that Statement II is incorrect. Statement II accurately states that approximately six million Jews were systematically murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1941 and 1945. The period from 1941 to 1945 corresponds to the core implementation phase of the "Final Solution," where the vast majority of the six million victims were killed in death camps and through mobile killing units. To argue that this statement is factually incorrect is to contradict the well-documented historical consensus regarding the chronological boundaries and scale of the Nazi genocide. The number of victims and the peak years of mass murder are foundational facts of the Holocaust.

The incorrect option is 3: Statement I and II are incorrect, Statement III is correct.
This option is profoundly incorrect as it asserts that the two most essential historical claims are false. Statement I provides the widely accepted definition of The Holocaust, including its alternative name, Shoah, and its nature as a genocide of European Jews during WWII. Statement II gives the correct estimated casualty figure (six million) and the most lethal phase of the mass murder (1941-1945). Therefore, dismissing both of these statements as incorrect renders this option entirely untrue and contradicts global historical scholarship on the topic.

The incorrect option is 4: Statement I, II and III are incorrect.
This option incorrectly claims that all three statements are false. We have established that Statement I (definition of Holocaust/Shoah), Statement II (six million Jews murdered between 1941 and 1945), and Statement III (the slogan *Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer*) are all historically accurate. Since all components of the statement are factual and correct, the claim that all three statements are incorrect is false. This option would only be valid if the entire body of historical data presented in the question were erroneous.