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The Big Lie

WWII vocabulary

TermDefinition
obliterate destroy utterly; wipe out
Kisvarda town in the northeastern part of Hungary
seized taken hold of suddenly and forcefully
town crier a person employed to make public announcements in the streets or marketplace of a town
gendarmes an armed police officer in France and other French-speaking countries
deportation the action of deporting a foreigner from a country
clubs heavy sticks with a thick end, especially one used as weapons
disinfection the process of cleaning something especially with a chemical in order to destroy bacteria
Dr. Mengele a German Schutzstaffel officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII
crematoriums a place to burn bodies
blocks barracks
pritsches triple deck wood shelves where prisoners slept
Zahlappell roll call
Kapos prisoners who helped the Germans as guards
Birmbaumel a concentration camp that was not a death camp like Auschwitz
Method of the Big Lie repeating the same accusation over and over until eventually many non-Jews would believe it
Final Solution destruction of the entire Jewish people
genocide destruction of an entire race of people
Axis Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan
nonaggression vowing not to attack each other's country
Blitzkrieg lightning war
Pearl Harbor sneak attack on the American Naval Base that prompted the U.S. to enter WWII
Holocaust Nazi Germany's war against the Jews
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