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22 Cards in this Set
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Anti-Semitism |
Hatred of Jews |
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Judaism |
The Religion of Jewish people |
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Scapegoat |
A group, person or object that bears blame |
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Post War |
After a War |
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Nazi |
A name given to the Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party |
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Third Reich
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A name given the Hitler's Germany, The new Order. Supposedly it would last a thousand years |
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Inferior
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Lower in rank, value, status |
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Aryans |
The master race, according to the Nazis. Blond hair, blue eyes, high cheek bones |
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Swastika |
A twisted cross that the Nazis used for their flag |
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Fuehrer |
Means 'absolute ruler' became Hitler's nickname |
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Gestapo |
Hitler's secret police |
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SS |
Stands for Schutzstaffel, also referred to as Blackshirts; a special security force |
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Lebenstraum |
The belief that Germany needed more land, and was entitled to invade her neibors |
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Judenfrage |
The theory that Jews needed to be eliminated everywhere |
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Dachau |
The first German concentration camp |
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Nuremburg Laws |
Anti jewish racial laws where Jews had restrictions or conditions |
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Kristallnacht |
Night of Broken Glass, November 1938; Jewish homes and businesses were looted and destroyed. Many Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps, those who resisted were shot |
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Synagogue |
A Jewish place of worship |
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Rabbi |
A Jewish Holy man |
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Oma and Opa |
German names for grandmother and grandfather |
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Boycott |
a protest where people stop buying a product |
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Bar Mitzvah |
A Jewish ceremony celebrating a boy's 13th birthday |
