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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 person, group, or thing that bears the 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 given to the nationalist socialist german workers party |
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Third Reich |
A new order (of government) that Adolf Hitler established that would supposedly last a thousand years |
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Inferior |
Lower in order, status, value, or rank |
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Aryans |
Nazis believed Germans to be the master race. They believed that they would be big-boned, blonde, and blue-eyed |
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Swastika |
A twisted cross that is the symbol of the nazi party |
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Fuehrer |
Means 'absolute ruler' and it became Hitler's nickname |
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Gestapo |
Hitler's 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 needed more land and was entitled to invade her neighbors in order to get it |
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Judenfrage |
The theory that the entire Jewish race has to be eliminated |
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Dachau |
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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Kristallnacht |
'Night of Broken Glass'- November 1938 Jewish homes and buisnessess wee looted & destroyed. Many Jewish men were arrested & sent to concentration camps. Those who resisted were shot. |
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Synagogue |
A Jewish church or place to worship |
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Rabbi |
A Jewish religious leader |
