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Holocaust Vocab.
Term | Definition |
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Holocaust | How Hitler discriminated against, and murdered Jews, Russian POWs, Homosexuals and Black people. |
Kristallnacht | The Night of Broken Glass, when many Jewish homes and businesses were destroyed. |
Antisemitism | Specific racism or discrimination toward Jews |
The Ghettos | Places where Jews were kept before they were moved in concentration camps. |
The Final Solution | Hitlers plan to get rid of everyone that wasn't of his race, or to make them work for him |
Mien Kampf | Translates to "My Struggle" or "My Battle" and this is where Hitler wrote about how his beliefs while he was in prison |
Race and Space | Hitler believed that Jews weren't the right race in his space and when they wouldn't leave he had to use other methods to "get rid" of them |
Synagogue | A Jewish place of worship |
Concentration Camps | A generalization of work camps and death camps. |
Propaganda | Some information in a biased or misleading manner. |
Nazi | National Socialist Party, the main perpetrators of the Holocaust |
Jews | Jewish people; the man victims of the Holocaust |
Adolf Hitler | The mastermind behind the Holocaust and the leader of Nazi Germany |