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History WW2 German Vocab Flashcards

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Adolf Hitler Schulen

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Adolf Hitler schools where children were taught according to NSDAP policy

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Allgemeine SS

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Major body of SS. Black and silver uniformed soldiers- most feared in Germany

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Anschluss

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union of Austria and Germany

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Arbeit Macht Frei

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“Work makes you free”

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Blitzkrieg

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“Lightening war”

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Einsatzkommandos

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special killing units assigned to kill Jews and other enemies of Germany

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Die Endlosung

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The Final Solution

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Euthanasia

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Plan to kill the feeble minded, handicapped, or “useless” people

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Der Fuehrer

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Leader of Germany- Adolf Hitler

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Fuehrerbunker

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Bunker in Berlin where Hitler committed suicide

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Geheime Staatspolizei(GESTAPO)

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Nazi secret police

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Ghetto

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restricted area, usually the poorest part of a town where Jews were forced to live

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Jude

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German word for Jew

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Kristallnacht

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“Night of Broken Glass” Homes, Synagogues, and businesses were burned and destroyed

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Lebensraum

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living space

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Liebstandarte SS

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Hitlers personal bodyguards

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Luftwaffe

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German air force led by Herman Goering

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NSDAP

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Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei

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Propaganda

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ideas, arguments, facts used to persuade to a particular viewpoint

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Reichsfuehrer SS

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Head of SS- Heinrich Himmler

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Resettlement

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word used to fool Jews that they were being moved to another area not to concentration camps

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SA

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storm troopers or “brown shirts”

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Special treatment

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code word for gassing

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Uebermenschen

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supermen- used to identify Germany as superior

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Vichy

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French gov’t under German control

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Wannsee Conference

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Conference where the “final solution” was discussed and the plan created to exterminate all European Jews

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Zyklon B

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poison gas used in concentration camps

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