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Anti-Semitism

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Prejudice against Jews

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Aryans

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German master race

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Nuremberg Laws

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Laws depriving Jews of citizenship, jobs, and property

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Einsatzgruppen

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German death squads

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Kristallnacht

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“Night of broken Glass”; attacks on Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues

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Wannersee Conference

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Held to determine the fate of the Jewish population

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The Jewish Problem

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Hitler’s dilemma of what to do with the Jewish population in Germany and Europe

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Final Solution

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Hitler’s plan to eliminate Jewish race

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Genocide

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Eliminating an entire race of people

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“Sub-humans”

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Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, E. Europeans, mentally/physically disabled

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Eugenics or Racial Hygiene

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Efforts by Nazis to cleanse or purify the Aryan race

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Natural Selection

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Survival of the fittest

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Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka, Bergen Belsen, Dachau

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Nazi death camps

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Zyklon B

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Poison gas used in death camps

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Number of Jews killed?

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6 million

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Tactics used to implement final solution,

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Slave labor and ghetto system

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When did final stage begin?

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1942

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Shoah

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Mass destruction or calamity

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Pogram

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Government sponsored tax in Jews

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Targets of Einsatzgruppen?

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Jews, Eastern Europeans, Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, and disabled

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How did Einsatzgruppen lead to the final solution?

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The leader, Heinrich Himmler, believed the shootings were demoralizing the soldiers

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What happened at Wannersee on January 20, 1942?

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All Jews ordered to be exterminated

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3 countries with highest number of Jew deaths?

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Hungary, Ukraine, Poland

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Percentage of top three countries with Jews killed?

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Poland: 90%, Germany: 90%, Czech.: 80%

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Three German death camps?

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(MC-BATS) Auschwitz, Belzac, Sobibor, Treblinka

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How did death camps generate money?

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Shaved heads and used for mattresses, gold teeth extracted and sold or sent to secret bank accounts in Switzerland, sold valuables