Words And Definitions

Question 1

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 1

Laws which institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology. The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of “German or related blood.

Question 2

Propaganda

Answer 2

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

Question 3

Auschwitz

Answer 3

Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Question 4

Germany

Answer 4

The country the holocaust occurred in.

Question 5

Ghettos

Answer 5

Ghettos were set up to segregate Jews from the rest of the population.They were designed to be temporary; some lasted only a few days or weeks, others for several years.
The vast majority of ghetto inhabitants died from disease or starvation, were shot, or were deported to killing centers.

Question 6

Holocaust

Answer 6

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews.

Question 7

Anti-semitism

Answer 7

Hostility to or prejudice against Jews.

Question 8

Swastika

Answer 8

This figure as the official emblem of the Nazi party and the Third Reich.

Question 9

Genocide

Answer 9

The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Question 10

Racism

Answer 10

The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.

Question 11

Hitler

Answer 11

Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

Question 12

Nazi Party

Answer 12

Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945.

Question 13

Elie Wiesel

Answer 13

Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel KBE was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor.

Question 14

World War II

Answer 14

World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier.

Question 15

Aryan race

Answer 15

The Aryan race was a racial grouping used in the period of the late 19th century to the mid-20th century to describe multiple peoples. It has been used to describe all Indo-Europeans, the hypothetical Aryan people in Persia and India and the Nordic or Germanic peoples.

Question 16

SS

Answer 16

The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party in Nazi Germany.

Question 17

Prejudice

Answer 17

Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Question 18

Death camps

Answer 18

Eventually the Nazis created a more secluded and organized method of killing. Extermination centers were established in occupied Poland with special apparatus especially designed for mass murder. Giant death machines. Six such death camps existed: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka.

Question 19

Scapegoat

Answer 19

A person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.

Question 20

Undesirables

Answer 20

A person considered to be objectionable in some way.

Question 21

Gestapo

Answer 21

The Gestapo, abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, or the Secret State Police, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.

Question 22

Final Solition

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The plan to annihilate the Jews of Europe. The genocide of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of German policy under Nazi rule and the realization of a core goal of the Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler.

Question 23

Poland

Answer 23

The action by Germany that began World War II in 1939. Germany invaded Poland only days after signing the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, under which the Soviet Union agreed not to defend Poland from the east if Germany attacked it from the west.

Question 24

Concentration Camps

Answer 24

This was the remains of the Nazis’ horrible crime, to imprison people in camps because of their “otherness” or in order to use them for forced labour. A concentration camp was not the same as an extermination camp – camps constructed with the specific purpose of mass murdering Jews and other victim groups.