Vocab Flashcards

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Final solution

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

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Ghetto

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

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Genocide

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

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Concentration camps

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

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Euthanasia

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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.

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Extermination camps

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Death camps to kill

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Kristallnaucht

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

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Josef Mengele.

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

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Nuremberg Laws

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

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Adolph Hitler

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

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Adolph Eichmann

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Head of Jewish Gestapo. Instrumental in imputing final solution.

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Heinrich Himmler

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

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Holocaust

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Murder and death of 6 million Jews

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Shoah

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Hebrew term for Holocaust

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Nazi

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National Socialist German Workers Party. Lots of propaganda

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