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17 Cards in this Set
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anti-semitism
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hatred or antipathy directed against Jews
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Aryan
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a term for peoples speaking the language of Europe and India
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beadle
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a minor parish offical who serves as an usher and preserves order at services
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cabbala
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mystical teachings that deal with the ideas of creation and concepts of a spiritual nature
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concentration camp
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a camp where prisoners or persons are detained
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crematorium
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furnaces where human bodies were burned
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deportation
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trains, usually used for cattle cargo, transported Jews to camps
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death camps
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centers established in mostly rural areas designed for mass murder
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death marches
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forced marches under brutal conditions
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euthanasia
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use of medical means, usually lethal injection to cause painless death
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facist party
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authoritarian political movement
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final solution
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Nazi plan for physical destruction of all of Europe's Jewish population
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genocide
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deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
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Gestapo
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internal security police of Nazi Germany
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ghetto
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within a city where high concentration of particular cultural, ethnic, or religious group
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Holocaust
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complete destruction by fire. Nazi killed many Jews
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Nazi
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National Socialist Workers Party headed by Hitler
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