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21 Cards in this Set
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Einstatzguppen
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3000 oridanary men many educated mobile killing units 3 out of 4 leaders held PHDs
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Babi Yar
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ravine near Kiev Russia sight of largest massacre
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Euthanasia
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killing of old age or handicapped people
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Wannnsee conference
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the conference where high ranking German Nazis to discuss the final solution to the Jewish Pople
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Josef Mengele
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Nazi pysician in charge of the selections at Auschwitz he and his staff determined weather people wold live or die. he also coducted expirments on jews especially twins
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crematorium
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a place where they burned the dead bodies to create more room
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concentration camp
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forced labor cap for Jews and non Aryian
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Death camp
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a place that was used to kill jews and non Arians in mass numbers
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zyklon b
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a poisons gas that was used to to kill insects but the nzis used it to kill humans
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Kapo
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athe man who reports how many are accounted for the day
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sondercommando
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the dirty work for jews in the crematoria
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Dachau
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the first camp that the nazis set up
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Buchenwald
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a camp where dimantes died of starvation and it had a barracks normally stored 80 horses but it was used for 12000 men
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thersienstdt
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a model camp that the nazis had set up to show the red cross
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Auschwitz-Birkenau
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the main death camp for jews and non Arians the gas chambers it was a labor camp an it had factories for the prisoners to work
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treblinka
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another death camp
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Rudolph Hoess
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comander of Auschwitz who organized three camps and the gassing of jew
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Perpetrators
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a particcipant in the killing /persecuted
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Victims
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those being persecuted
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Rescuers
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those who tried to aid the persecuted
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bystanders
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those who watched or were aware of what was happing and did nothing to help
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