ELA Hitler terms

Question 1

Holocaust

Answer 1

Destruction of Jewish by the Nazis (1933 - 1945)

Question 2

Anti - Semitism

Answer 2

Prejudice against Jewish

Question 3

Nazi

Answer 3

Abbreviation for Hitler’s political party.

Question 4

Genocide

Answer 4

Killing of ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.

Question 5

Ghetto

Answer 5

small section of city where Jews were forced to live.

Question 6

Deportation

Answer 6

Forced removal of Jews from their home.

Question 7

Concentration camps

Answer 7

Work and death camps (Germany and Poland) exterminates Jews and others that are “undesirable” by the Nazis.

Question 8

Auschwitz

Answer 8

Largest Nazi camp (includes killing center and slave labor camps)

Question 9

Crematorium

Answer 9

Furnaces/ ovens used to burn human remains

Question 10

Gestapo

Answer 10

Secret state police (Germany) stamp out political opposition

Question 11

The Final Solution

Answer 11

Cover name for the plan to destroy Jews of Europe

Question 12

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 12

Laws that excluded Jewish people from being considered German.

Question 13

SS. Officer

Answer 13

Germany Army elite guard. Serve as Hitler’s personal protectors and administer the concentration camps.

Question 14

Kapo

Answer 14

Prisoner appointed by the Nazis to oversee labor details and work duties in camps.

Question 15

Aryan Race

Answer 15

Nazi definition of superior Germanic race. (Pale skin, Blonde Hair, Blue eyes)