The Holocaust Key Terms/words Flashcards

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Holocaust definition

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Destruction of a vast group of people, especially Jewish people. Slaughter on a mass scale.

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Genocide definition

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Killing off a race of people

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Aryan race definition

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A race concept that describes people who descend from proto-Indo-Europeans. (The superior German race)

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Anti semitism definition

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Hatred/prejudice / hostility against Jews.

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Social Darwinism definition

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The idea that certain people become powerful because they are innately better because of race. E.g. Germans believing aryans are better.

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Concentration camp definition

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A place in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners , are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labour or to await mass execution

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Extermination camp definition

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Extermination camps were used by the Nazis from 1941 to 1945 to murder Jews

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Name an extermination camp/concentration camp

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Auschwitz

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Germans thought Jews were inferior and sub human. What is this in German

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Unter menschen = sub human

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What was the SS

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The elite guard of the nazi regime (schutzstaffe)

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What were deaths head squads

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SS units assigned to guard concentration camps.
The section of the SS in charge of the nazi camps.

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Who was himmler

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The leader of the SS

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Who organised the holocaust

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Heydrich and Eichmann

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When and where was the holocaust planned

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The Wannsee conference in January 1942

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What is the final solution

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Another term for the holocaust. Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews introduced by Heinrich Himmler

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Cattle wagon

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How prisoners were transported to camps

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Selection

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On arrival prisoners are divided up by gender.

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Unfit

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Unable to work for nazis

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Gas chambers

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Unfit sent here

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Zyklon b

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Gas used to kill unfit. Cyanide based pesticide invented in 1920 Germany

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Fit

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Able to work for Nazis

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Shaved

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Hair removed and used to make their socks

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Tattoos

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Dehumanises them by number identity.

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Showers

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Try to control body lice

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Striped pyjamas
Camp uniform
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Whistles
Marks start of prisoners day
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Blocks
Living centre for prisoners (cold + cramped)
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Mattress + blanket
Up to 8 prisoners shared one
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Roll calls
Counting prisoners ( rarely to set any free)
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Selection of fit or unfit
Unfit were killed in front of everyone for authority
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Watery soup
Basic food offered to prisoners
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Hard labour / kanada section
Prisoners jobs, best jobs were indoors as it’s warmer and less guards.
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Arbeit macht frei
Work makes one free- German phrase
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When were the Nuremberg trials
1945-1949
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Who organised the Nuremberg trials
France, USA, uk, russia
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What were the crimes people were put in trial for or killed for at the Nuremberg trials
Crimes against humanity (holocaust). War crimes (killing prisoners). Crimes against peace (starting war).
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What were the Nuremberg trials
Trial of Nazi war criminals
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When were the Nuremberg laws
1935
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When was the Wannsee conference
1942
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When was the night of broken glass
1938
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When was the liberation of Auschwitz
1945
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When was the opening of dachau
1933
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When was the boycott of Jewish shops
1933