key terms Flashcards
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Total War
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A conflict in which a combatant state mobilises its entire population and all of its material resources to participate in the war effort.
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Auxiliary Corps
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Non-combat units which supported the fighting troops.
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Untermenschen
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Literally ‘sub-humans’, used by the Nazis to describe those whom they considered to be racially inferior, including Jews, Gypsies and peoples of the Slav race.
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Zyklon B
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A form of poisonous cyanide gas, originally developed by a Jewish scientist as a weapon for use in the First World War and later used in gas chambers for mass killings in the death camps.
