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Anti-Semitism |
Hatred of jews |
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Judaism |
The religion of the Jewish people |
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Scapegoat |
a person, group, or thing that bears the blame for the mistakes or times 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 to get it. |
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Judenfrage |
The theory that the entire Jewish race had to be eliminated |
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Dachau |
The first German concentration camp established in 1922 |
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Nuremberg 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 businesses were looted and destroyed. Many Jewish men were arrested and 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 |
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Oma & Opa |
German names for Grandmother and Grandfather |
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Boycott |
A protest in which a group of people stop buying or using a product or service/ business to make a statement |
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Bar Mitzvah |
A ceremony where boys are initiated into adulthood at the age of 13. They are given extra responsibilities within the Jewish community. |