JH Words part 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Aktion | Gangs of anti-Semites formed to force Jews into labor camps. It is also used in reference to violence against Jews. |
| Allies | an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy |
| Anielewicz, Mordechai | 1919-1943. commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization, consisting of about 1000 Zionists and Bundist youth movement members who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. |
| Anschluss | The union of Austria with Germany, resulting from the occupation of Austria by the German army in 1938. |
| Anti-Semitism | prejudice and/or hatred of jews. |
| Aryan-Race | the pure Germanic race, used by the Nazis to suggest a superior non-Jewish Caucasian typified by height, blonde hair, blue eyes |
| Auschwitz | a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II |
| Axis | in World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations |
| Babi Yar | Ravine in Ukraine where tens of thousands of Jews were slaughtered by advancing German troups |
| Belzec | Nazi killing center located in eastern Poland. It opened in March 1942 and closed in December 1942. More than 600,000 persons, overwhelmingly Jews,, were murdered there, initially in gas vans and later in gas chambers. |
| Blitzkrieg | German lightning warfare. Characterized by highly mobility and concentrated forces at point of attack. |
| Chamberlain, Neville | (1869-1940) Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1937 to 1940. He is responsible for the policy of appeasement with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. |
| Chelmno | First extermination camp opened in late December 1941 in incorporated western Poland (the Wartheland), where the SS, using special mobile gas vans, killed Jews from Lodz and Poznan provinces as well as Austrian Gypsies who had been incarcerated in the Lodz ghetto |
| Churchill,Winston | (1874-1965) British politician and Prime Minster of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945, and 1951 to 1955. He is regarded as the finest British leader of the 20th century and was instrumental in leading Britain to victory during World War II. |
| Concentration Camp | a prison camp operated by Nazi Germany in which Jews and other groups considered to be enemies of Adolf Hitler were starved while doing slave labor or were murdered |
| Dachau | a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany |
| Death March | the movement of prisoners from occupied territory (Poland and Hungary) back to Germany. Many died of exposure, malnutrition, and murder |
| Deportation | the act of expelling a person from their native land |
| Eichmann, Adolf | (1906-1962) SS lieutenant colonel and head of IVB4, the Jewish department of the RSHA. Eichmann was instrumental in implementing the "Final Solution," organizing transports of Jews from all over Europe to killing centers. Participant at the Wannsee Conference. Arrested at the end of World War II in the American zone of Germany. Escaped, went underground, and disappeared. In 1960 members of the Israeli Secret Service discovered him in Argentina and covertly brought him to Israel fro trial. He was tried in Jerusalem (April-December 1961), convicted, sentenced to death, and executed. |
| Einsatzgruppen | Nazi strike forces that killed innocent Jews with their infamous "death squads" |
| Euthanasia | the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness) |
| Evian Conference | held in france July 1938 major countries were not wiling to open their doors to Jews fleeing from Germany. |
| Extermination Camp | a camp where prisoners were sent to be executed |
| Final Solution | final solution of the Jewish question-murder of every single Jew-had begun-mass arresting, and trafficking of Jews to the concentration camps-mass killings occurred as well in the gas chambers |
| Genocide | systematic killing of a racial or cultural group |
| Gestapo | the secret state police in Nazi Germany |
| Ghetto | formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live |
| Goebbels Joseph | the Nazi party's chief of the department of propoganda |
| Goring, Hermann | (1893-1946) World War I flying ace and early associate of Hitler. Responsible for the Nazi rearmament program and especially for the creation of the German air force (Luftwaffe). During World War II he was virtual dictator of the German economy and was responsible for Germany's total air war. On 31 July 1941 Goring wrote Heydrich directly ordering him to organize the "Final Solution." One of the cheif defendants before the International Military Tribunal held at Nuremberg (1945-1946). Convicted and sentenced to death, he commited suicide hours before his scheduled hanging. |
| Grynszpan, Herschel | A Polish Jewish youth who had moved to Paris and worried about the fate of his parents. He shot and killed Third Secretary Enrst vom Rath at the German Embassy on November 7, 1938, providing an excuse for Kristallnacht. |
| Gypsies (Roma) | person belonging to a wandering group of people who origanally came from india. approx. 500,000 killed in holocaust |
| Hess, Rudolph | German National Socialist leader. In 1920 he became an ardent follower of Adolf Hitler and after the Munich "beer-hall putsch" (1923) shared Hitler's imprisonment |
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