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LA vocab 8th #2
LA vocab part 2 DPM
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| remorse | a bitter regret; guilt after having done wrong |
| allies | the nations that joined with Britain to fight Nazi Germany during WW II including the Soviet Untion, the US and France |
| anti-semitism | a form of racism based on hatred or an prejudice against Jews |
| aryan | a term Nazi's used to describe people who they believed were of pure German blood - a superior race of white people with blonde hair and blue eyes |
| concentration camp | a prison camp set up for holding large numbers of political prisoners |
| crematorium | a building with large ovens for burning dead bodies |
| Death camp | a camp set up to exterminate inmages quickly and efficiently |
| final solution | the Nazi's term for the plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe - the salution to what they believed was the "Jewish problem" |
| Fuhrer | the German word meaning "leader" applied to Hitler |
| genocide | the deliberate attempt to destroy a national, religious, racial or ethnic group in whole or in part |
| ghetto | an area of a city where Jews were forced to live in cramped, inhumane conditions during Nazi rule |
| Adolf Hitler | leader of the Nazi party |
| Holocaust | the mass murder of Jewas and other minorities by the Nazi's between 1933 & 1945 |
| labor camp | a prison camp in which inmates are subjected to enforced hard labor |
| Nazi party | the national socialist German workers party lead by Hitler. The party believed in strong military leadership to enfore nationalistic, racist and anti-semitic policies |
| SS | from the German Schutzstaffel meaning "protective squad". The SS began as Hitler's personal guard but grew to become a large and powerful organization responsible for concentration camps and racial matters |
| storm troopers | also known as brown shirts; a force of troops used by the Nazi party to help Hitler rise to power |
| synagogue | a building used for Jewish religious study, worship and celebration |
| third reich | the period of German government from 1933-1945 from the German meaning "third Empire" |
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