Holocaust Unit Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Propaganda | Joseph Goebbles - propaganda minister Persuasive Advertising. |
Prejudice | Prejudgment formed on a group of people without knowing them. |
Discrimination | An acting of prejudice |
Racism | Believing your race is dominant over another. |
Anti-Semitism | Hatred of Jewish People |
Sterotype | Simplified generalization of a group of people. |
Scapegoat | Someone/Something you put blame on. |
Dehumanization | Taking away someones human qualities. |
Aryan | Pure German master race (Blonde hair, Blue eyes) |
Monotheism | Belief in one god. |
Polytheism | Belief in many gods. (Romans, greeks) |
Nuremberg Laws | 1935. Six laws: ~ Non Jews may not marry Jewish People. ~Jewish people cannot fly the Nazi or German Flag ~ Jewish people can not vote or hold public office ~ Jewish people may not be in the armed services ~ Jewish people are not citizens |
Kristallnacht | Night of broken glass - November 9, 1938. Destroyed Jewish business and synagogues |
Ghetto | Segregated part of town; walled off section of the city. (Lodz, Warsaw, Krakow) |
Euthanasia | Giving consent to kill someone. Example: T4 - lasted 10 years. Tested ways to massacre people. |
Concentration Camp | Forced work to the death camps. (Dachau) |
Death Camp (Killing Center) | 1942. Wannasee conference - final solution - kill all the Jewish people. (Auschwitz, Sobibor) |
Selection | Selected to work or die while being placed into camps. |
Death March | Very end of war. Kills off as many Jewish people as possible by marching until you die. |
Bystander | Someone who is standing around watching. |
Resistance | Physical: Shooting Nazis, revolting. Emotional: Praying, Marriage, Holidays |
Liberation | May 8th, 1945 - open up all camps, forming D-P camps (Displace persons) |
EinSATZGRUPPEN | Hitlers mobile killing squad |
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