Holocaust Glossary

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Adolf Hitler

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German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party and Germany from 1933 to 1945.

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Anti-Semitism

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Hostility or prejudice against Jews.

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Auschwitz

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A famous concentration camp established by the Nazis in Poland.

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Concentration Camp

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A place in which large numbers of people are deliberately imprisoned with inadequate facilities, forced labour and mass execution. Strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany.

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Dehumanisation

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The denial of “humanness” to other people.

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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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Eugenics

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The study or belief of improving the qualities humans by discouraging reproduction by people with genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits, and encouraging reproduction by people presumed to have inheritable desirable traits. Controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable traits.

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Euthanasia

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Also called mercy killing, the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.

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Extermination Camp

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Designed and built by Nazi Germany During World War II, made to systematically kill millions, mostly by gassing but also in mass executions and through extreme work under starvation conditions.

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Final Solution

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The Nazi’s policy of killing European Jews, the murder of 6 million Jews. Done after destroying everything the Jews had and in concentration camps.

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Genocide

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The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular nation or ethnic group.

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Ghetto

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A section of a city that is inhabited by Jews.

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Holocaust

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The systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in 1933 - 1945. Act of dehumanisation and discrimination.

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Liberation

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To free (a group or individual) from social or economic constraints or discrimination, especially arising from traditional role expectations or bias.

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Nazi Party

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A political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that practiced Nazism and was lead by Adolf Hitler between 1920 to 1945.

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Pogrom

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An organized killing that was unnecessary and indiscriminate, especially of Jews.

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Police State

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A nation in which the police, supresses any social, economic or political act that conflicted with governmental policy.

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Prejudice

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Unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostilenature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group.

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Racism

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Hatred or intolerance of another race or other races and the belief one’s own race is superior to others.

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Refugee

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A person that flees their own country to another for refuge or safety, usually in times of political upheaval or war.

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Resistance

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Organisation composed of private individuals working as an opposition force in a conquered country to overthrow the occupying power.

Question 22

Propaganda

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Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people…Propaganda works on the general public from the standpoint of an idea and makes them ripe for the victory of this idea. “Adolf Hitler wrote these words in his book Merin Kampf (1926), in which he first advocated the use of propaganda to spread the ideals of National Socialism – among them racism, anti-Semitism and anti Bolshevism.