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8th Grade
05/19/2014

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Allies
Definition
nations fighting Germany; US, Great Britain, Soviet Union
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Apathy
Definition
a lack of interest or regard: indifference
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Aryan
Definition
Ambiguous term the Nazis applied to people of Northern European racial background
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Auschwitz
Definition
a complex consisting of concentration, extermination, and labor camps in Poland
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Axis
Definition
Germany, Italy, Japan
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bigotry
Definition
an unreasonable or irrational attachment to negative stereotypes and prejudices
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Brownshirts
Definition
The Nazi militia created by Adolf Hitler in 1921 that helped him to rise to power
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Buchenwald
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Concentration camp 1937 in Germany primarily a work camp
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Bystander
Definition
a person present but not involved; chance spectator; onlooker.
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Communism
Definition
a society in which the collective community shares ownership with everyone
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Concentration Camp
Definition
camps established by Nazis. Major instrument of terror, control, punishment
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Crematorium
Definition
furnaces used to cremate bodies
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Discrimination
Definition
the denial of justice and fair treatment by both individuals and institutions
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Einsatzgruppen
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were Schutzstaffel paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings,
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Euthanasia
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deliberate extermination of people institutionalized with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities, carried out to clean Aryan race.
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Extermination Camp
Definition
a Nazi facility where victims were killed on a mass scale and their bodies burned or buried in mass graves
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Genocide
Definition
The mass murder of an entire race or people.
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Ghetto
Definition
a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
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Hanukkah
Definition
Jewish festival lasting eight days, celebrated from the 25th day of the month of Kislev to the 2nd of Tevet in commemoration of the rededication of the Temple by the Maccabees following their victory over the Syrians under Antiochus IV, characterized chiefly by the lighting of the menorah on each night of the festival.
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Holocaust
Definition
the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II
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Kristallnacht Pogrom
Definition
Night of Broken Glass hundreds of synagogues and businesses were destroyed
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Mein Kampf
Definition
the autobiography (1925–27) of Adolf Hitler, setting forth his political philosophy and his plan for German conquest.
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Propaganda
Definition
false or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to sway the opinions of the population
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Racism
Definition
practice of discrimination, segregation, persecution, and domination of a group based on race
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Scapegoat
Definition
a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
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Schutzstaffel
Definition
Nazi Waffen SS police.
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Stereotype
Definition
an oversimplified generalization about a person or group of people without regard for individual differences
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Swastika
Definition
The ancient Egyptian symbol used as the German emblem during WW2.
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Anti-semitism
Definition
discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.
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