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National Socialist Party |
-The Nazi party was the only political party from 1920-1945 -Platform: believed Aryans (blonde haired/blue eyed) were the perfect people |
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Axis |
-A group of countries that opposed the allied countries. -Germany, Italy, and Japan as well as Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia |
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Allies |
-A group of countries that opposed the Axis groups.
-Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and the United States -Winners of WWII -Didn't join until the bombing of Pearl Harbor |
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Holocaust |
-the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–45. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, such as gypsies and homosexuals, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
-Means "whole burnt" |
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Swastika |
-an ancient symbol in the form of an equal-armed cross with each arm continued at a right angle, used (in clockwise form) as the emblem of the German Nazi Party. |
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Concentration Camps |
-place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz. |
