Question 1

holocaust

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The murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazis. Sinti-Roma, Poles, people with physical and mental disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents were also targeted by the Nazis.

Question 2

jehovah's witness

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A religious sect that originated in the United States and had about 20,000 members in Germany in 1933. Their religious beliefs did not allow them to swear allegiance to any worldly power, making them enemies in the eyes of the Nazi state.

Question 3

pogrom

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Originally a Russian word meaning "devastation" used to describe organized, large-scale acts of violence against Jewish communities, especially the kind instigated by the authorities in Czarist Russia.

Question 4

kristallnacht pogrom

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An organized pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria on November 9-10, 1938. Kristallnacht is also known as the "Night of Broken Glass," or "Crystal Night."

Question 5

propaganda

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False or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to sway the opinions of the population.

Question 6

reich

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The official name of the Nazi regime; ruled from 1933 to 1945 under the command of Adolf Hitler. Historically, the First Reich was the medieval Holy Roman Empire, which lasted until 1806. The Second Reich included the German Empire from 1871-1918.

Question 7

shoah

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A Hebrew word meaning "catastrophe," referring to the Holocaust.

Question 8

ghetto

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Sections of towns and cities that the German occupation authorities and their allies used to concentrate, exploit, and starve regional Jewish populations.

Question 9

survivor

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Within the context of the Holocaust, a survivor is someone who escaped death at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators.

Question 10

aryan

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A rather ambiguous term the Nazis primarily applied to people of Northern European racial background. Although never defined, in April 1933, the Nazis defined "non-Aryans" as individuals who had a parent or grandparent who was Jewish.

Question 11

boycott

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To abstain from using, buying, or dealing with a business as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion.

Question 12

ideology

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the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.

Question 13

genocide

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acts committed to destroy a group, including killing members of the group. serious bodily or mental harm, inflicting on the conditions of life bring physical destruction. prevent births within the group. giving children of the group to other.

Question 14

desecration

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to treat with sacrilege; profane.

Question 15

discrimination

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The denial of justice and fair treatment by both individuals and institutions in many arenas, including employment, education, housing, banking, and political rights. Discrimination is an action that can follow prejudicial thinking.

Question 16

dehumanization

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As a political or social measure, dehumanization is intended to change the manner in which a person or group of people are perceived, reducing the target group to objects or beings not worthy of human rights.

Question 17

bias

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a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned: illegal bias against older job applicants; the magazine’s bias toward art rather than photography;

Question 18

antisemitism

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Prejudice or discrimination against Jews. Antisemitism can be based on hatred against Jews because of their religious beliefs or their group membership, belief that Jews are a race. Nazi antisemitism was racial in nature; Jews were viewed as racially infe

Question 19

gypsies

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A collective term often used for Sinti and Roma communities living throughout Eastern Europe since the fifteenth century. They were considered an asocial element by the Nazis and persecuted relentlessly. (See also Sinti-Roma.)

Question 20

collaborator

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The act of working jointly; in the context of war, it is often the act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying one's country. —collaborator n.

Question 21

gestapo

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The Nazi Secret State Police who were directly involved in implementing the murder of Jews and other Nazi victims during the Holocaust.

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