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Nuremberg Laws

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A law made which excludes Jews from German life and took away some of their natural rights

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Propaganda

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Attempts to force a set of guidelines on people who are at risk to its appeal.

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Auschwitz

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One of the largest concentration camps in the Holocaust

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Germany

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Country in Europe, where most Nazis were from.

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Ghettos

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Enclosed city that some Jews were forced to live in.

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Holocaust

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Started in WW2 because Nazis were trying to kill the entire Jewish population in Europe.

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Anti-semitism

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When you don’t like Jews.

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Swastika

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The symbol of Nazism

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Genocide

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The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

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Racism

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Discrimination based on race

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Prejudice

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Making prejudgements about a person before knowing that individual.

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Hitler

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Leader of the Nazi party

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Nazi party

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political group was a political group that ruled Germany between 1933 and 1945

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Elie Wiesel

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He was deported to Auschwitz when he was 15 and wrote a memoir about his torture there.

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World War 2

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War that started by Nazis trying to end Jews in Europe.

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Aryan race

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German white people that Hitler gave pride to

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ss

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Hitler’s elite guards that ran many concentration camps and death camps

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Death camps

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“industry of death” the nazis used to kill people in the easiest, cheapest, quickest way possible

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scapegoat

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A person who is unfairly blamed for something that others have done

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undesirables

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  • jewish people
  • intellectualy ill and emotionally ill people
  • homosexuals
  • Roma people
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Final solution

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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

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Gestapo

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Hitlers secret police, they deported Jews and eliminated political opposition

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Poland

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Country that Germany invaded in 1939

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concentration camps

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camp where large numbers of people were sent for forced labor.