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Propaganda

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Something that expresses your view point with the purpose of getting others to agree with it

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Nuremberg Laws

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A set of laws created in Germany in WWII that made racism legal. Prohibited Jews from having any relationships with Germans.

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Auschwitz

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The harshest concentration camp during the Holocaust. First to be created, last to be liberated

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Germany

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Deutchland. The cause of WWII

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Ghettos

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Enclosed neighborhoods. Germans barricaded the Jews into these places and wouldn’t let them leave

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Holocaust

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Meant total destruction by Fire.

Now means mass murder of Jews

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Anti-Semitism

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To be Anti-Jewish

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Swastika

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Used to mean a symbol of good fortune. Now is the symbol of Nazism

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Genocide

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Mass extermination of a race

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Racism

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Discrimination based on race and an act of prejudice

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Hitler

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The Person who caused WWII

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Nazi Party

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A political party

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Elie Wiesel

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The author of night. A survivor of Auschwitz

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World war 2

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The second global war involving the axis and allies

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Aryan race

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Pure German people

Blonde, blue-eyes healthy smart

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SS

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Hitler’s elite guards ran many of the concentration/death camps.

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Prejudice

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The act of making prejudgments about a individual before knowing them

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Death camps

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A camp where people were sent to to be killed during WWII. Controlled by Germany

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Scapegoat

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Someone who is blamed for something someone else has done

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Undesirables

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The People who didn’t follow nazism.

Jews, disabled, homosexuals, gypsies,

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Gestapo

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Hitlers secret police. Killed everyone who didn’t agree with Hitler

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Final solution

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The solution to wipe out the Jews from Europe

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Poland

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The country first invaded in WWII

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Concentration camps

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Camps to torture Jews

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