Holocaust Flashcards
Adolf Hitler
German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)
anti-Semitism
hostility to or prejudice against Jews.
Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built during World War II
concentration camp
a place in which large numbers of people are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labour or to await mass execution.
dehumanisation
to deprive of human qualities or attributes
discrimination
the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
eugenics
the science of improving a population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.
euthanasia
the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma.
extermination camp
Death camps designed and built by Nazi Germany during World War II (1939–45) to kill millions of Jews, and others, primarily by gassing.
Final Solution
the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945.
genocide
the deliberate killing of a large group of people.
ghetto
put in or restrict to an isolated or segregated area or group.
Holocaust
destruction or slaughter on a mass scale. a Jewish sacrificial offering which was burnt completely on an altar.
liberation
the act of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release.
Nazi Party
The Nazi Party was a political group that ruled Germany between 1933 and 1945.
