Holocaust Flashcards

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Albeit Macht Frei

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Work make your free. slogan on the main gates of Aushwitz

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Crematorium

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The oven or fur ace where bodies of concentration and death camp prisoners were burned

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Ghetto

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Enclosed urban neighborhood❌

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Cattle car

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Freight cars that were used to transport Jews

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Gestapo

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The political police of Nazi Germany

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Deportation

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Term used for the forced removal of Jews in Nazi occupied countries under the pretense of “resettlement.” Most Jews were take to the death camps and killed.

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Pogrom

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An organized, officially tolerated attack against a Jewish community

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Final Solution

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Nazi term for their program to exterminate all the Jews. A euphemism for mass murded.

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Resettlement

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A Nazi euphemism to deceive the Jews so they would enter trains and other vehicle for deportation.

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Sonderkommando

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Jews forced to do certain jobs in the camps

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Bunkers

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Underground chambers built by Jews for hiding from round ups in ghettos, towns, and forests.

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11 million

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Total number of people killed in the holocaust

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Anti Semitism

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Hatred of persecution of Jewsw

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Fuhrer

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The title was used by Adolfo Hitler to define his role of absolute dictatorship in Germany’s Third Reich

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Anti-Semitism

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Racism towards Jewish people

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Wannabe Conference

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Where the final solution was planned

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Star of David

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Symbol Identifying a Jews

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Nazi

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Abbreviation for National Socialists anger an Workers Party

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Holocaust

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The systematic state-sponsored killing of over 6⃣million Jews by Nazi Germany

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Other killed

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Catholics, homosexuals, social democrats, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Trade Unionists, Communists Socialists, Gypsies

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Concentration Camp

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A prison camp where the Nazis sent people on the basis of identification with a particular ethnic or political group

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6⃣ Million

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Total number of Jews killed in the Holocaust

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Death camps

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Nazi center for industrialized murder. Jews and non-Jews were brought to these camps to be put to death

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Aryan

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A nonexistent race of people whom the Nazis believe was superior and should rule the world

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Einsatzgruppen
Mobile killing squads
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Labor camps
A camp where prisoners, working in inhumane conditions, were used for slaved labor
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Blitzkrieg
Nazi Germany's military strategy
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Selection
A process by which the Nazis, often physicians, decided who would be slave labored and who would be killed
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Nuremberg Laws
2⃣ Constitutional laws issued on September 15, 1935, they denied all Jews citizenship, depriving the, of their rights
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Extermination
Refers to the annihilation or total destruction of Jews
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Propaganda
Tool to brainwash people
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Ghetto
Often the most run-down section of a city, where Jews were forced to live
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Kristallnacht
Night of the Broken Glass
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Aushwitz
The largest death camp. established in 1940, it grew to incorporate the death camp Bikrenau, and many other sub-camps
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Swastika
A twisted cross, adopted by the Nazis from an ancient sumbol
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Gas chamber
Large, sealed, airtight room used to put people to death with poison gases
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Liquidation
The euphemistic term used by the Nazis for killing and/or removing all Jews from an area
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Final Solution
Plan to rid Europe of all Jews