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Holocaust Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fuhrer | Leader in German. The name used to show respect to Adolf Hitler |
| Auschwitz | Largest nazi concentration and extermination camp |
| Hitler youth | Military organization for young German boys to learn the ways of the Nazi army |
| anti-semitism | Prejudice against Jewish people and their culture |
| swastika | Ancient symbol used for over 3,000 years and make popular again by the Nazis' who used it to sybolize death, violence and murder |
| gestapo | "secret police" of Nazi Germany |
| death trains | Railway transports that forced Jews and other victims to concentration and death camps |
| death camps | Built by Nazi Germany for the systematic killing of millions of people, victims were not expected to survive more than a few hours |
| ghetto | A portion of a city where members of a minority group live because of social, legal or economic pressure |
| genocide | Killing or harming people with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group |