🔥 Flashcards
Nuremberg Laws
A law made which excludes Jews from German life and took away some of their natural rights
Propaganda
Attempts to force a set of guidelines on people who are at risk to its appeal.
Auschwitz
One of the largest concentration camps in the Holocaust
Germany
Country in Europe, where most Nazis were from.
Ghettos
Enclosed city that some Jews were forced to live in.
Holocaust
Started in WW2 because Nazis were trying to kill the entire Jewish population in Europe.
Anti-semitism
When you don’t like Jews.
Swastika
The symbol of Nazism
Genocide
The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
Racism
Discrimination based on race
Prejudice
Making prejudgements about a person before knowing that individual.
Hitler
Leader of the Nazi party
Nazi party
political group was a political group that ruled Germany between 1933 and 1945
Elie Wiesel
He was deported to Auschwitz when he was 15 and wrote a memoir about his torture there.
World War 2
War that started by Nazis trying to end Jews in Europe.
Aryan race
German white people that Hitler gave pride to
ss
Hitler’s elite guards that ran many concentration camps and death camps
Death camps
“industry of death” the nazis used to kill people in the easiest, cheapest, quickest way possible
scapegoat
A person who is unfairly blamed for something that others have done
undesirables
- jewish people
- intellectualy ill and emotionally ill people
- homosexuals
- Roma people
Final solution
The solution to killing all European Jews.
phase 1: Jews were round up and shot
phase 2: Jews were round up and put in gas vans
phase 3: Jews were put in camps
Gestapo
Hitlers secret police, they deported Jews and eliminated political opposition
Poland
Country that Germany invaded in 1939
concentration camps
camp where large numbers of people were sent for forced labor.
