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Final Exam Review Flashcards

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Holocaust

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The killing of millions of Jews and other people by the Nazis during WWII

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Genocide

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The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, cultural, or religious group

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Anti-Semitism

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Opposition to and discrimination against Jews

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Prejudice

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A judgement or opinion formed before the facts are known. In most cases, these opinions are founded on suspicion, intolerance, and the irrational hatred of other races, religions, creeds, or nationalities.

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Discrimination

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The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex

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Scapegoats

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Someone blamed for crimes committed by others; Jewish people were considered these

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Ethnocentrism

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Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture

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Race

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Any one of the group’s that humans can be divide into based on shared distinctive physical traits

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Culture

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The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group

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Stereotyping

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Biased generalizations about a group based on hearsay, opinions, and distorted preconceived ideas

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Nazi

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National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Characterized by centralized and authoritarian structure. Based on militaristic, racial, antisemitic, and nationalistic policies.

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Aryan

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A term for people speaking the language of Europe and India. In Nazi racial theory, a person of pure German “blood”.

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Ghetto

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Established in the poor sections of a city, where most of the Jews were forced to reside. Common characteristics include overcrowding, malnutrition, and heavy labor.

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Kapo

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A concentration camp inmate appointed by the SS to be in charge of a work gang

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Torah

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A scroll containing the five Books of Moses; piece of Jewish literature

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Kristallnacht

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The Night of the Broken Glass; Synagogues and Jewish shops were destroyed. Tens of thousands of Jews were taken to concentration camps. Occurred throughout Germany and Austria.

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Social Darwinism

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A concept base on the idea of “survival of the fittest”. From this, the Nazis created a pseudo-scientific brand of racism which was most harsh when directed against Jews, but others, particularly Slavs, were not exempt.

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Final Solution

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A Nazi euphemism for the plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe

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Nuremberg Laws

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Took away Jewish people’s rights and citizenship. Also made marriage and sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews illegal.

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Night of the Long Knives

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Attack on many SA military leaders that were loyal to Rohm, which Hitler saw as threatening

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Bystander

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One who is present at some event without participating in it

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Victim

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A person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event

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Rescue

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To save someone from a dangerous or distressing situation

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Collaborator

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Cooperation between citizens of a country and its occupiers

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Perpetrator

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Those who do something that is morally wrong or criminal

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Resistance

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Refusal to accept or comply with something

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Displacement Camps

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Camps designed specifically to hold refugees who have been moved far from home due to war

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Einsatzgruppen

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Mobile units of the Security Police and Asa’s Security Service that followed the German armies to Poland. Goal was to kill all Jews and other enemies.

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Third Reich

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The Nazi designation of Germany and its regime from 1933-1945

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Death Marches

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Forced marches of prisoner over long distances and under intolerable conditions, which was a way victims of the Third Reich were killed.

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Streicher

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Hitler’s friend and founder of the antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer

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Eicke

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Commander of SS and key figure in the establishment of concentration camps

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Heydrich

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Mentally unstable number three man in Hitler’s Germany. Sentenced to life in prison at Nuremberg. Came up with the Final Solution.

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Frank

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Young Holocaust victim who kept a diary of her experiences

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Schindler

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Member of the Nazi party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them

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Himmler

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Head of the SS. Had connections to many Nazi camps, the Einsatzgruppen, and the Gestapo.

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Rohm

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Head of the SA who worked with Hitler in the Beer Hall Putsch; eventually killed at Night of Long Knives; homosexual

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Mengele

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Senior SS physician at Auschwitz-Birkenau from 1943-1944. Carried out “selections” of prisoners upon arrival at camp and performed cruel experiments on prisoners.

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Goebbels

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Prior threat to Hitler before joining the inner circle; Reich minister of information/propaganda

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Goering

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WWI pilot and hero who was a loyal follower of Hitler; head of the Reichstag; worked with the military

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Ravensbrück

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Concentration camp opened for women in 1939

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Dachau

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The first Nazi concentration camp. Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and other enemies were prisoners here. Experiments were performed on the prisoners. Liberated by American in April 1945.

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Sobibor

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Extermination camp in Poland. Closed after a rebellion by its prisoners.

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Auschwitz

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Complex concentration, extermination, and labor camps. Opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi camps.

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Warsaw

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Ghetto with terrible living conditions. A revolt occurred 1943, lasted 28 days, and ended with the destruction of the ghetto.

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Euthanasia

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Nazi euphemism for the deliberate killings of institutionalize physically, mentally, and emotionally handicapped people. Program was later extended to Jews.

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Theresienstadt

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Nazi ghetto in Czechoslovakia created to deceive the outside world. Served as the “model Jewish settlement”.

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Zyklon B

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Pesticide used in some of the gas chambers at the death camps

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Wannsee Conference

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On a lake near Berlin, the SS official Reinhard Heydrich helped present and coordinate the a Final Solution

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Z.O.B.

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A group led by Mordecai Anielewicz that participated in the Warsaw ghetto uprising

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