Holocast 2.0

Question 1

Semite

Answer 1

A member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a semitic language, including in particular the Jews and Arabs.

Question 2

Anti-semitism

Answer 2

Hostility or prejudice against Jewish people

Question 3

Racial science

Answer 3

This pseudoscientific belief claims that humans can be divided into biologically distinct “races” to justify racism, superiority, or inferiority.

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Monotheism

Answer 4

The belief that there is only one God

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Aryan

Answer 5

In the late 19th and early 20th century, this was a mythical “race” that was claimed to be superior to other races. In Germany, the Nazis promoted this false notion that glorified the german people as members of the “Aryan race”, while degenerating “non-aryans”
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(In Nazi ideology) a person of Caucasian race not of Jewish descent

Question 6

Propaganda

Answer 6

Information, especially bias or misleading, used to promote a political cause or point of view

Question 7

Indoctrination

Answer 7

The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs, without questioning it.

Question 8

Ideology

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The set of beliefs characteristic of a social group or individual

Question 9

Censorship

Answer 9

The prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered offensive, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.

Question 10

Nuremberg laws

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Anti-semitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15th september 1935

Question 11

Persecution

Answer 11

Hostility and ill treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs

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Discrimination

Answer 12

Unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, sex or disability.

Question 13

Vilification

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Abusively disparaging (expressing opinion that something is of little worth) speech or writing

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Separation

Answer 14

The division of something constituent or distinct elements.

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Extermination

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Killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals- complete destruction

Question 16

Mischlinge

Answer 16

A legal term used in Nazi Germany to denote persons of both Aryan and Jewish ancestry as defined by the Nuremberg racial laws of 1935.

Question 17

Kristallnacht/Night of the Broken Glass

Answer 17

The night of November 9-10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish people and property. The name refers to the litter of broken glass left in the streets after these pogroms.

Question 18

Pogroms

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A violent riot aimed at the massacre or expulsion of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews.

Question 19

Concentration Camps

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A place in which large numbers of people are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities to await mass execution.

Question 20

Labour Camps

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In forced-labour camps, the Nazi regime brutally exploited the labour of prisoners for economic gain and to meet labour shortages. Prisoners lacked proper equipment, clothing, nourishment, or rest. OR a prison camp in which a regime of hard labour is enforced

Question 21

Ghetto

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A confined area of a city where the Germans forced the Jewish population to live in substandard conditions.

Question 22

Extermination Camps

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A Nazi concentration camp that specialised in the mass annihilation of unwanted persons.

Question 23

Deportation

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To expel someone (usually a foreigner) from a country, typically on the grounds of illegal status or for having committed a crime.

Question 24

‘Jewish problem’

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Referred to the belief that the existence of Jews in Germany posed a problem for the state.

Question 25

The final solution

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The Nazi policy of exterminating all European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann.

Question 26

Appell

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Appellplatz (often spelt appelplatz) is a compound German word meaning “roll call” (Appell) and “area” or “place” (Platz). In English the word is generally used to describe the location for the daily roll calls in Nazi concentration camps.

Question 27

Arbeit Macht Frei (German)

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A German phrase meaning “Work sets you free” or “Work makes one free”. The slogan is known for appearing on the entrance of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentrationA camps.

Question 28

Auschwitz-Birkenau

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A nazi concentration camp that specialised in the mass annihilation of unwanted persons.

Question 29

Crematorium

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An establishment or structure in which the bodies of the dead are cremated.

Question 30

Zyklon B

Answer 30

Hydrogen cyanide absorbed or released from a carrier in the form of small tablets, used as an insecticidal fumigant and by the Nazis as a lethal gas.

Question 31

Perpetrator

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A person who commits an illegal, criminal, or evil act

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Bystander

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People who were passive and indifferent to the escalating persecution that culminated in the Holocaust

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Upstander

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Included a wide range of actions to oppose Nazi injustice

Question 34

Rescuer

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Took action to directly save people from the Nazis by hiding them, taking their children into their homes, helping them get visas to flee to safe countries, and helping in other critical ways.