holocaust terms Flashcards
Adolf Hitler
Holocaust
Nazi party
Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
Genocide
(in Nazi ideology) of or denoting white non-Jewish people, especially those of northern European origin or descent typically having blond hair and blue eyes and regarded as a supposedly superior racial group.
aryan
An organized massacre of a particular ethnic group.
pogrom
german secret police
gestapo
a unit of Nazis created as bodyguard to Hitler and later expanded to take charge of intelligence, central security, policing action, and the mass extermination of those they considered inferior or undesirable
SS
“Storm Division” or Storm Troopers) was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party
SA
Organizations set up under Hitler to train an educate German young people in Nazi beliefs
Hitler Youth
jewish place of worship
synagogue
National Socialist paramilitary ranks were pseudo-military titles which were used by the Nazis, represented by the Nazi Party, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
nazi party paramilitaries
sworn written statement made before an authorized official
affidavit
