Sentence:  [...] the entire Press, more particulary the French press, is worried lest there be some connection between the bloodless <WSD>holocaust</WSD> of German Generals and Ambassadors and the persistent reports that Mussolini is about to intervene in Spain on the grand scale. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A near or complete annihilation of a group of animals or people, whether by deliberate agency or by natural agency (especially fire). (from the 20th c)