holocaust
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jodimccormack on February 16, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 anti-semitism | discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews |
| concentration camp | a guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens,members of ethnic ,political opponent,etc.especially any of the Nazis prior to and during world war 2 for the confinement and persecution of prisoners |
| death camp | a concentration camp in which the inmates are unlikely to survive or to which they have been sent to be executed |
| genocide | the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national,racial,political.or cultural group |
| gestapo | the German state secret police during the Nazi regime,organized in 1933 and notorious for its brutal methods and operations |
| holocaust | the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during world war 2 |
| Nazi | a member of the national socialist German workers party of Germany.in which 1933,under Adolf Hitler,seized political control of the country,suppressing all opposition and establishing a dictatorship over all cultural.economic and political activities or the people |
| persecutation | to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment,especially because of religion.race or beliefs,harass persistently |
| propaganda | information,ideas,or rumors deliberately spread widely to help a person,group,movement,institution,nation.etc. |
| SS(schutzstaffel) | an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force |
| star of David | a hexagram used as a symbol of Judaism |
| tyranny | arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power;despotic abuse of authority |
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