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27 Cards in this Set
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Allies
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The nations including the U.S., Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, that joined the fight in WWII against Germany and the other Axis nations.
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Anti-Semitism
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The hatred of Jews, their religion, and their culture.
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Aryan
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This term was used by the Nazis to mean a superior, Germanic race of blonde hair and blue eyes.
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Axis
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The nations, including Italy and Japan, that fought in WWII against the Allies.
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Concentration camp
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A prison in which “enemies of the German state” were sent.
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Crematoria
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Ovens in which death camp victims’ bodies were burned.
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Deportation
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The Jews forced relocation from their homes to other places – ghettos and concentration camps.
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Einsatzgruppen
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Killing squads, mobile killing units.
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Final Solution
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The Nazi plan to murder by gassing all the Jews of Europe
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Fuhrer
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German for “leader,” used in reference to Adolf Hitler.
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Genocide
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The systematic killing of a nation or race of people.
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Gestapo
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Nazi secret police.
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Ghetto
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Special sections of larger towns and cities surrounded by fences, walls, and armed guards where Jews were forced to live.
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Holocaust
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“Destruction by Fire,” refers to the Nazi killing of 6 million Jews 1933-1945.
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Judenrein
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A place without Jews.
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Kristallnacht
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“Night of Broken Glass”
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Liberation
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Setting free.
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NAZI
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National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
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Nuremberg Laws
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These laws defined Jews, excluding them from German society, and removed all their civil rights.
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Resistance
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Fighting back to prevent the oppressor from achieving his/her goal in spite of great danger.
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Righteous Gentiles
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Non-Jews who risked their own lives to save Jews during WWII.
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Round up
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The taking of Jews from their homes and transporting them to ghettos or concentration camps. The Nazis would swoop down and gather up a large number of Jews.
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Scapegoat
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A person who is blamed for the mistakes and failures of others.
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SS
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Schutzstaffel – ran the concentration camps.
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Swastika
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An old religious ornament, adopted by the Nazis as their party symbol.
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Third Reich
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Hitler’s name for Germany 1933-1945
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Yom Hashoa
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Holocaust Remembrance Day
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