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Holocaust Flashcards

1
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Policy of “mercy killing” the elderly and handicapped

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Euthanasia

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2
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The section of a city in which the Jews were forced to live

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Ghetto

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3
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Roll call area inside concentration, labor, and death camps

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Appelplatz

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4
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An innocent person blamed for the problems of another

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Scapegoat

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5
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The systematic elimination of a people or nation

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Genocide

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6
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Discrimination or persecution of Jews

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Anti-Semitism

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7
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German for Jews

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Juden

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8
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Steps of a genocide

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  1. Denial of justice
  2. Persecution
  3. Isolation
  4. Dehumanization
  5. Violence
  6. Mass Execution
  7. Denial
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9
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Furnaces where human bodies were burned

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Crematorium

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10
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SS killing units that sought out and murdered Jews in the Soviet Union

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Einsatzgruppen

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11
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Secret police

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Gestapo

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12
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Head of Jewish council established by Nazis in each ghetto

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Judenrat

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13
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The nazi considered this the “superior race”

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Aryan

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14
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What does the word holocaust mean

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Burnt hole

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15
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The gas used to kill Jews in the gas chambers of Auschwitz

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Zyklon-B

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16
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Items piled at train station in Schindler’s list

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Glasses, photos, clothes, shoes, teeth, luggage

17
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What splash of color does Schindler see

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Red

18
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What do the women do to their faces and why? Schindlers list

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Rub blood from their fingers onto it to make them look healthy

19
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What does Schindler give for the women to be back in his custody

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Diamonds, jewels

20
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What do the workers make in Poland

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Pots and pans, ammunition shells

21
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What do the workers make to show their gratitude for Schindler

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A ring made out of a mans filling

22
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Purple triangle badge

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Jehovah witness

23
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Pink triangle badge

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Homosexual

24
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Brown triangle badge

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Gypsies

25
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Green triangle badge

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Criminals

26
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Red triangle badge

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Political prisoners

27
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Ways the jews were persecuted

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Destroying business, homes, and synagogues
Took people in for “questioning”
Property taken by gov
Jews began wearing yellow stars
Jews had to turn in bicycles
Jews forbidden from driving, taking the train, or walking in front of a German

28
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Ways the jews were dehumanized

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Nazi loaded jews on trains like cattle
Called jews by number not name
Placed in camps without regard to family
Nazis were told to treat jews like animals
Harsh work, little sleep, little food, little clothing

29
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Ways the jews were executed

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Gassed, electrocuting, mass cremation, firing squad, hanging, buried alive

30
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Auschwitz

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Poland concentration camp

Where dr. Mengele made the ultimate human labratory, 7,000+ experimented on

31
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Ravensbruck

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All female German concentration camp

32
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Karl Koch

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Butcher of buchenwald

33
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Dr. Joseph Mengele

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“The Angel of Death”, Auschwitz, multiple births, perfect aryan specimen, tested on twins to see if one was hurt the other would feel it, Roma gypsies to prove their blood was different, TB testing to help German soldiers

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Simon Wiesenthal

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Nazi hunter brought many back for trial

35
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Nuremburg

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1945-1946, international tribunal, 4 crimes, 1 conspiracy to wage aggressive war 2 waging aggressive war(jail) 3 war crimes 4 crimes against humanity

36
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Dachau

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Political concentration camp

37
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Codename for extermination of the Jews

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Final solution

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