Vocab

Question 0

Final solution

Answer 0

Nazi euphemism for planned mass murder and total annihilation of Jews.

Question 1

Ghetto

Answer 1

Poor parts of town, overcrowded, disease, starvation, sealed inside

Question 2

Genocide

Answer 2

Systematic and deliberate. Partial or entire annihilation of cultural, religious, racial, or political groups.

Question 3

Concentration camps

Answer 3

Established by Nazis to imprison all “enemies” of their regime: actual and potential political opponents. Mainly for labor, harsh conditions.

Question 4

Euthanasia

Answer 4

Nazi euphemism for “mercy deaths” of incurably insane, permanently disabled, deformed and “superfluous”. 3 categories: 1) euthanasia for incurables, 2) direct extermination by “special treatment.” 3) experiments in mass sterilization. First group to go was the imperfect Germans.

Question 5

Extermination camps

Answer 5

Death camps to kill

Question 6

Kristallnaucht

Answer 6

Night of broken glass, Nov. 9-10, 1938. First day of Holocaust. Destruction of Jewish houses and businesses.

Question 7

Josef Mengele.

Answer 7

Angel of death. In charge of selection. SS physician at Auschwitz.

Question 8

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 8

Takes away civil rights for Jews. Bans relationships between Jews and Germans.

Question 9

Adolph Hitler

Answer 9

leader and chancellor of the Third German Reich. Through his racist ideology and diabolical plans he murdered over six million Jews and started WWII

Question 10

Adolph Eichmann

Answer 10

Head of Jewish Gestapo. Instrumental in imputing final solution.

Question 11

Heinrich Himmler

Answer 11

had control over the vast network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps, the Einsatzgruppen, and the Gestapo

Question 12

Holocaust

Answer 12

Murder and death of 6 million Jews

Question 13

Shoah

Answer 13

Hebrew term for Holocaust

Question 14

Nazi

Answer 14

National Socialist German Workers Party. Lots of propaganda