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Holocaust Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allies | the four major opponents of Germany in World War II:France, Great Britian, the Soviet Union, and the United States. |
| anti-semitism | prejudice against Jews; dislike of Jews discrimintation or persecution of Jews |
| aryan | has no biological validity as a racial term. Used by the Nazis to mean a superior, white, Nordic heroic type. |
| crematorium | ovens or furnaces where concentration or death camp prisoners' bodies were burned. |
| death camp | Nazi centers of murder or extermination |
| deportation | term used for the forced removal of Jews in Nazi occupied lands under the pretense of resettlement |
| dictator | an absolute, often oppressive ruler |
| displaced | term used to refer to those survivors of the Holocaust who had no homes after the war |
| final solution | Nazi term for their program to get rid of all the Jews of Europe |
| fuhrer | Adolf Hitler's title as chancellor and head of state in Germany |
| genocide | the systematic killing of a whole people or nation |
| gentile | a person of non-Jewish faith, especially a Christian |
| gestapo | the secret state police, a branch of the SS which dealt with political opponents and was in charge of expelling Jews from German controlled lands |
| holocaust | systematic murder of approximately six million Jews between 1933 and 1945 |
| kristallnacht | "night of broken glass" three nights of violence against Jews, Jewish homes, synagogues, and businesses. |
| liberation | the opening of the concentration camps by the Allies and the freeing of prisoners |
| Mein Kamph | book written by Hitler outlining his ideas |
| Nazi | abbreviation for National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| nuremberg laws | laws removing civil rights from the Jewish people |
| propaganda | the systematic spreading of particular ideas or policies, usually through mass media, to advance a particular cause or idea |
| racism | a philosophy or program of discrimination, segregation, persecution based on the idea of one race being superior to others |
| scapegoat | person or group of persons unfairly blamed for wrongs done by others |
| SS | abbreviation for schutzstaffeln or protection squads, they were an elite guard picked to watch over Hitler. |
| stereotype | gerneralization made about groups of people, based on a fixed mental image |
| swastika | a symbol (twisted cross) used by the Nazis |
| Third Reich | Hitler's name for his Germany and administration (third Empire) |
| Zyklon B | cyanide gas used in Nazi gas chambers |
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