War and Conflict vocabulary

Question 1

Genocide

Answer 1

The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular ethnic group or nation with the aim of destroying that ethnic group or nation.

Question 2

The etymology of “Genocide”

Answer 2

genos = race (Greek)
cide = the act of killing (Latin/French)

Question 3

Holocaust

Answer 3

Destruction or killing on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war

Question 4

Synonyms for Genocide

Answer 4

Bloodletting
Racial killing
Ethnic cleansing
Extermination
Massacre

Question 5

The historical meaning of “Holocaust”

Answer 5

A Jewish sacrificial offering that was burned completely at an altar

Question 6

The etymology of “Holocaust”

Answer 6

From Latin originally

Holos = whole     
kaustos = burning

Question 7

Synonyms for “Holocaust”

Answer 7

Sho’ah (catastrophe)

Hurban (destruction)

Question 8

Gestapo

Answer 8

Secret State Police (Geheime Staatspolizei) in Nazi Germany

Question 9

The SS

Answer 9

Protective Echelon (Schutzstaffel), Adolf Hitler’s personal body guards

Question 10

What does the Star of David represent?

Answer 10

It represents God as David’s protector/shield

Question 11

Etymology of “Swastika”

Answer 11

From the Sanskrit word “svastika” meaning well-being/good fortune

Question 12

The colours of the Swastika

Answer 12

Red, Black, White (Same as the German imperial flag)

Question 13

The Swastika

Answer 13

A hooked cross symbol, used on the NAZI flag as a symbol of German nationalist pride and Aryan identity

Question 14

Der Fuhrer

Answer 14

“Leader”

The title Hitler took when he assumed dictatorship of Germany

Question 15

Kristallnacht

Answer 15

“Night of Broken Glass”
Nov 9 - Nov 10 1938

A night of rampage where Nazis torched synagogues and vandalised Jewish homes, schools and businesses.

Around 100 people were killed and
30 000 Jewish men were taken to concentration camps.

Question 16

The Final solution

Answer 16

The planned mass murder of European Jews between 1941 - 1945
The solution to “the Jewish problem”

Question 17

Ways in which the Final Solution was implemented

Answer 17

• Implementing starvation policies in concentration camps
• Allowing disease to spread in these camps and doing little to heal sickness
• Random acts of terror and shootings
• Mass Gassings

Question 18

Concentration camp

Answer 18

A place where people are detained or confined under harsh conditions without regard to legal norms of arrest or imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy

Question 19

Gas chambers

Answer 19

Bunkers where victims were killed using Zyklon B gas.

Victims believed they were being disinfected and were forced to remove their clothes.

Question 20

Nuremburg trials

Answer 20

A series of 13 trials held in Nuremberg 1945 - 1949 to prosecute Nazi officials, high-ranking officers, German industries, lawyers and doctors with crimes against peace and humanity

Question 21

How were the bodies disposed of after gassing?

Answer 21

Corpses were burned in crematoria or buried in mass graves