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Vocab Words Flashcards

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Adolf Hitler

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Leader of Germany. Influential public speaker. Intelligent strategic planner

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Genocide

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Known as the holocaust. Deliberate destruction of an ethnic, racial, political, or religious group.

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Holocaust

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Extermination of the Jews during WWII. 6 million were murdered

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Mein Kampft

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My struggle

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Heinrich Himmler

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Leader of the S.S, chief of German police, and leader of concentration camps

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Nazi

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National socialist German workers party

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Persecution

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I’ll treatment of a racial or religious group

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Others persecuted:

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Gypsies, blacks, catholic priests, handicapped, homosexuals

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Third Reich

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Name of German government under Hitler

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Enabling act

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Legislative that gave hitler the power to pass laws regardless of others or the constitution

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Storm troopers

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Serve as body guards to hitler or other nazi leaders

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Gestapo

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German secret police, under control of the S.S

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Anti Semitism

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Hatred and persecution of Jews

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Propaganda

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Spreading of ideas to further a cause

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Nuremberg Laws

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Anti Jewish legislative

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Yellow Star

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A badge featuring the Star of David used as a method to visibly identify Jews

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Aryan

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Pure race-people who’s roots were European

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Kristallkacht

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Known as “night of broken glass” It is the name given to the violent anti Jewish activities of Nov 9-10 1938

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Work camp/concentration camp

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Guarded camps where prisoners were held

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Ghetto

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A section of city where Jews were forced to live

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Call-up

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Official notification that a person must report to nazi authorities and be relocated often to a concentration camp

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Deportation

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The force removal from a country

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Killing centers

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For efficient mass murder

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