German occupiers from the very beginning initiated a plan of cultural and physical extermination of the Polish nation.

One family converted to Orthodox Christianity, saving itself from physical extermination.

In Ancient Greece this act was often carried out for philosophical or supposedly rational thought, usually by withdrawing care rather than a physical extermination.

The squad's unstated goal appears to be the physical extermination of kidnappers.

During his interrogation in 1961, Adolf Eichmann recalled that this "later deportation" actually meant "physical extermination."

There is a continuing debate about whether or not Szabó explicitly called for the physical extermination of the Hungarian Jews.

If a genocide designs the physical extermination of a people, an ethnocide refers to the extermination of a culture.

The British understandably try to forget that their empire was the fruit of military conquest and of brutal wars involving physical and cultural extermination.

Himmler thus confirms that the context is explicitly physical extermination, since umbringen simply has no meaning other than "to kill".

Himmler told Höss that Hitler had given the order for the physical extermination of Europe's Jews.