Holocaust Flashcards
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Anti-Semitism
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Prejudice against Jewish people
2
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The Nuremberg Laws
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A series of anti-semitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany
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The Final Solution
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The decision to kill the Jews
4
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Einsatzgruppen
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Execution squads that went out in mobile vans which they used to gas the Jews. They would also shoot them
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Gestapo
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Nazi police who rounded up Jews to take them to death camps
6
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Adolf Hitler
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Leader of the Nazi party in Germany
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Heinrich Himmler
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Leader of the SS and the cheif Architect of the Holocaust
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9/10th November 1938
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Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) Nazis attacked Jewish synagogues, shops and other buildings and arrested thousands of Jews
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20th January 1942
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Nazi leaders meet at the Wansee Conference to agree to plan for the mass murder of the Jewish
