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Schindler's List
Vocabulary #1
Question | Answer |
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Aktion | German military or police Aaction,@ or Astrike@ usually direct against Jews in a ghetto for the purpose of intimidating the populace or rounding up the populace for deportation to a death camp |
Allies | the nations that joined in the war against Germany |
Anschluss (or Union) | the incorporation of Austria by Nazi Germany on March 13, 1938 |
Anti-Semitism | acts or negative feelings against Jews which take the form of prejudice, dislike, fear, discrimination, and persecution |
Aryan | a term used by the Nazis to describe Caucasians of non-Jewish descent; blond-haired, blue-eyed North Europeans; a Amaster race@ destined to rule the world |
Aryanization | the legal term given to the one-sided process by which German authorities expropriated Jewish businesses in Germany and in the occupied territories |
Auschwitz - Birkenau | the death camp located 35 miles west of Krakow |
Authoritarianism | believing in or characterized by unquestioning obedience to authority, as that of a dictator, rather than individual freedom of judgment and action |
Axis | Germany, Italy, and Japan; later joined by Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia |
Baum Gruppe (Herbert Baum Group) | small, clandestine anti-Nazi organization founded in Berlin at the beginning of the Nazi regime by Herbert and Marianne Baum whose activities centered around increasing education, political, and cultural awareness |
Belzec | the Nazi death camp located about 150 miles east of Krakow |
Brunnlitz | the industrial town in German-occupied Czechoslovakia where Schindler relocated his Krakow factory in late 1944 |
Buchenwald | one of the first concentration camps to begin operation (1937) |
Bystanders | individuals, or governments, who were indifferent to the plight of the Jews, and other victims of the Nazis |
Chelmno | the first death camp established by the Nazis which opened on December 7, 1941 |