🔥 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.