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Holocaust Vocabulary
Vocab. words for Holocaust unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adolf Hitler | Leader of Nazi Germany from 1933-1945 |
| Anti-semitism | Prejudice against Jews |
| Auschwitz | Concentration/extermination (death) camp located 37 miles west of Krakow, Poland |
| Blitzkrieg | German word meaning "lightning war"; used to describe the speed, efficiency, and intensity of German military attacks |
| Capos | Term for Jews who worked in the death camps |
| Concentration Camps | Camps created to imprison and kill mass amounts of people at a time. Jewish people made up the largest population in the camps, but there were members of other groups targeted as well. |