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Anti-semitism |
Prejudice against Jews |
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Aryan |
Term used by nazi to describe the race of people they viewed as being racially superior |
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Auschwitz |
Largest death camp build by nazis, in Poland over 2,000,000 people died |
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Buchenwald |
One of the first concentration camps built |
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Concentration camps |
Work and death camps located in Germany and Poland to incarcerate and exterminate Jews, gypsies and homosexuals |
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Crematorium |
A furnace used in death camps to cremate the bodies of victims |
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Dachau |
One of the first concentration camps built, located in southwestern Germany |
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Death camps |
Built to exterminate Jews and other enemies of nazi regime |
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Death marches |
Forced marches of concentration camp prisoners as nazi tried to keep ahead of allied forces |
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Deportation |
Forced removal of Jews from their homes in nazi occupied lands, sent to death and labor camps |
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Final solution |
Nazi code word for the physical extermination of European Jews |
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Gas chamber |
A sealed and airtight room where death was induced through use of poisonous gas |
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Genocide |
The systematic killing of nation or race of people |
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Gestapo |
The nazi secret police |
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Ghetto |
An area of city to which Jews were restricted and from which they were forbidden to leave |
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Holocaust |
Term used to describe the annihilation of Jewish people of Eastern Europe by the nazi, end of WW2 6,000,000 Jews were killed |
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Kristallnacht |
Night of the broken glass, organized pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria 1938 |
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Treaty of Versailles |
Peace treaty signed at end of ww1 |
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Yellow star |
The six pointed Star of David made of yellow cloth and sewn to the clothing of European Jews so nazis could identify them |
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Zyklon-B |
Gas used in gas chambers of death camps |
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Labor camp |
A nazi concentration camp predominantly designed for slave labor |
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Liberators |
Soldiers who freed the prisoners of the concentration camps |
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Prejudice |
Attitude toward a person, group of people or idea formed with adequate information |
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Racism |
Practice of discrimination, segregation, persecution, and domination on basis of race |
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Resistance |
Physical and spiritual opposition to nazi regime |
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SA |
Storm troopers or brown shirts, organized to protect nazi rallies |
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Scapegoat |
An innocent person or persons blamed for the problems or troubles of another |
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SS |
Elite guard, under command of Heinrich himmler, responsible for the administration of concentration camps and for carrying the final solution |
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Third reich |
Official name of nazi regime, ruled from 1933-1945 under hitler |
