Holocaust Terms

Question 1

Antisemitism

Answer 1

Attitudes or actions based on a dislike or hostility towards Jews

Question 2

History of Semitic

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Originally linguistic term for people who spoke a Semitic language
Biological meaning made it apply to Jews alone
Some say should be hyphenated because not against Semites, but Jews

Question 3

Arbeit macht frei

Answer 3

Work makes you free
On auschwitz gates
Intended to deceive prisoners about camp’s function

Question 4

Aryan race

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Originally applied to people who spoke an Indo European language
Biological meaning - blond and blue eyes
Native to Northern Europe

Question 5

Nazi goal

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Purify rayan race by removing “biological pollutants” and prevent “Bastardation of race”

Question 6

Bystanders

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Anyone who is neither perpetrator nor victim

Indifference and apathy to the suffering of others, without getting involved

Question 7

Collaborator

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Anyone not part of German administration that perpetuated the crimes, but who cooperated and took part in them

Question 8

Concentration camps

Answer 8

Established by Nazis soon after assumption of power

Intended to terrorize population and imprison all enemies of regime

Question 9

Enemies of Nazi regime

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Actual and potential political opponents
Communists
Socialists
Monarchists
Jehovah's witnesses
Gypsies
Homosexuals
A socials
J

Question 10

Jews in camps

Answer 10

Targeted for internment and treated more harshly, but small minority of prisoners until 1938, when they were arrested because they were Jews

Question 11

First three camps and their locations

Answer 11

Dachau - Munich
Buchenwald - Weimar
Sachsenhausen - Berlin

Question 12

Crematorium

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Building connected to the gas chambers where corpses were incinerated for disposal

Question 13

Death march

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Forced march of long columns of prisoners from camps in Poland and Eastern Europe toward Germany for the purpose of avoiding the red army invading from the east and so preventing liberation
Guarded long distance walks early 1945, little food, clothes, or proper shoes
Many died or were killed

Question 14

Deportation

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Expulsion of undesirable population from a given territory due to religious or ethnic discrimination, political, strategic, or ideological considerations, or a combination

Question 15

Discrimination

Answer 15

Sociological term
Treatment toward or against a person of a certain group in consideration based solely on class or category
Actual behavior toward another group
Excluding or restricting members of one group from opportunities available to other groups

Question 16

Extermination camps

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Nazi camps for the mass killing of Jews and some others
Gypsies, Russian prisoners, ill prisoners
All in Poland

Question 17

Name extermination camps

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Auschwitz-Birkenau
Belzec
Chelmno
Majdanek
Sobibor
Treblinka

Question 18

Final solution

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Formally enunciated at the Wannsee conference on January 20, 1942
Plan to systematically murder all Jews in Europe rather than follow previous policy of forced emigration

Question 19

Fuhrer

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Leader

Adopted by hitler as title after hindenburg’s death

Question 20

Gas chambers l

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Rage rooms which would be sealed

Pellets of poison gas or carbon monoxide would be introduced to kill everyone in the room

Question 21

Genocide

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Deliberate and systematic destruction of a religious, racial, national, or cultural group

Question 22

Gestapo

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Nazi secret police

Question 23

Ghetto

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Introduced in medieval times to force separation of Jews and Christians
Protected Jews from outbursts of anti-semitism
Different and intended to isolate Jews as if they were contagious and then eliminated them, mostly in Eastern Europe
Overcrowded, starvation, forced labor
All eventually destroyed ass Jews deported to death camps

Question 24

Indifference

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Having or showing no interest or concern
Apathetic
Unmoved

Question 25

Kapo

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Prisoner in charge of a group of inmates in Nazi camps

Question 26

Kinder transport

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Program allowed after many negotiations and a lot of fees | Jewish children to be sent from Germany, Austria, and parts of Czechoslovakia to the UK before the war

Question 27

Kristallnacht

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Night of the broken glass Pogrom unleashed by Nazis on November 9-10, 1938 Germany and Austria Over 1400 synagogues and other Jewish institutions burned 7000 Jewish stores destroyed and contents looted 30000 Jewish men sent to camps Excuse was assassination of Ernst Vom Rath in Paris by Jewish teenager whose parents had been deported

Question 28

Lebensraum

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Living space Discussed in mein kampf volume 1 Hitler's obsession with new land from Eastern Europe at the expense of other nations

Question 29

Liberation

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Being freed from ghettos and camps | Allied soldiers

Question 30

Mein kampf

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My struggle Hitler's autobiography written while in prison for failed Beer Hall Putsch 1923 to take over government Propounds racist ideology and plans for future Superior Aryan race has right to lebensraum in the east, which is inhabited by inferior Slavs Accuses Jews of being the source of all evil, equating them with Bolshevism and international capitalism

Question 31

Nazi

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Abbreviated Hitler's political party the National Socialist German Worker's Party

Question 32

Nuremberg trials

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Military tribunals held by Allies Prosecution of prominent members of political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany in 1945-1946 at the Palace of Justice

Question 33

Perpetrator

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Anyone who actively participated in the persecution

Question 34

Prejudice

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Preconceived belief, opinion, or judgment made without recourse to reason Drawing typically instead upon received information or instinctual preference Preconceived judgment toward people or person because of race, social class, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, political beliefs, religion, sexual orientation, or other personal characteristics Priori beliefs without knowledge of facts Any unreasonable attitude that is unusually resistant to rational influence

Question 35

Propaganda

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Systematic propagation of doctrine or cause or information reflecting views and interests of those advocating it Material disseminated by advocates or opponents of doctrine or cause

Question 36

Rescuer

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Anyone who aided and assisted the victims to avoid or escape persecution

Question 37

Resistance

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Underground organization engaged in struggle for national liberation in a country under military or totalitarian occupation

Question 38

SS

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``` Defense protective units Schutzstaffel Originated from the SA to be Hitler's personal bodyguard Vast organization and military force Black uniforms Fought on battlefield Led destruction of Jews ```

Question 39

Star of David

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Yellow | Used by Nazis as a method of identifying Jews

Question 40

Up stander

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Someone opposite of bystander | Speaks up and takes action against tyranny, abuse, or persecution

Question 41

Zyklon b

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Trade name for Prussic acid, the chemical agent used to release poison gas in the gas chambers

Question 42

Anschluss

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German for Union | Annexation of Austria by Germany on March 13, 1938