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24 Cards in this Set
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anti-semistem |
hatred of jews |
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judaism |
the religion of jewish people |
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scapegoat |
person,group, or thing that bears blame for the mistakes or crimes of others |
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post-war |
the time period after the war |
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nazi |
the new name to the nationalist socialist german workers party
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third reich
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a new order that Adolf hitler established that would supposedly last a thousand years
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inferior
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lower in order, status, value, or rank
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aryans
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nazis believed germans to be the master race. They believed that they would be big boned , blonde, and blue eyed
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swasika |
a twisted cross that would be the symbol of the nazi party |
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fuehrer
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means "absolute ruler" and it became hitlers nickname
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gestapo |
hitlers secret police
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SS |
stands for schutzstaffel, also called the blackshirts; a special security force
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lebensraum |
the belief that germany needs more land and was entitled to invade her neighbors to get it
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judenfrage |
the theory that the entire jewish race had to be eliminated |
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dachau
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the first german concentration camp established in 1933 |
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nuremburg laws |
anti-jewish racial laws where jews had restrictions or certain conditions
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kristallnatch |
jewish homes and business's were looted or destroyed, many jewish men were sent to concentration camps |
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synagogue |
a jewish church, or a place to worship |
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rabbi |
a jewish religious leader |
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Oma and Opa |
german names for grandmother and grandfather |
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boycott |
a protest in which a group of people stop buying a product or using a service to make a statement |
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bar mitsva |
a ceremony where jewish boys are initiated into adulthood at the age of 13, given extra responsibilities within jewish community |
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bat mitsva |
a ceremony where jewish girls are initiated into adulthood at the age of 12-13, given extra responsibilities within jewish community
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star of david |
a six-pointed star used as a symbol of Judaism. This symbol was used as the badge that the nazis forced the jews to wear,to distinguish them from the rest of the population |
