| Term | Definition |
|---|
| anti-semitism | opposition to and discrimination against Jews |
| bystander | one who is present at some event without participating in it |
| concentration camps | prisons used without regard to accepted norms of arrest and detention. Death, disease, starvation, crowded and unsanitary conditions, and torture were a daily part of them. |
| dictator | a ruler who has absolute power, unrestricted control |
| death camps | Hitler's extermination centers- where victims were brought to be killed |
| emaciated | to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh |
| fascism | a political belief with the guiding principle that the state or the nation is the highest priority rather than personal and individual freedoms |
| the final solution | the plan to exterminate all the Jews in Europe |
| genocide | the deliberate and systematic destruction of an entire racial, political, cultural, or religious group |
| gestapo | secret state of police of Nazi-occupied Europe |
| ghetto | section of a city, a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or minority group which had restrictions, pressures, and hardships |
| holocaust | 1. a great or complete devastation or destruction usually by fire 2. the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi German concentration camps during WWII 3. any mass destruction of life |
| inhumane | lacking humanity, pity, kindness, compassion; mean or cruel |
| Kristallnacht | "The Night of the Broken Glass"- November 9, 1938 when almost 200 synagogues were destroyed, over 8,000 Jewish shops were sacked and looted, and tens of thousands of Jews were removed and taken to concentration camps |
| Mein Kampf | "My Struggle"- written by Adolf Hitler, published in 1925 & is the basis for the Nazi Party's racist beliefs |
| military intelligence | information about another country's armed forces that is useful in planning and conducting military operations |
| Nuremberg Laws | laws which deprived Jews of their civil rights and systematizing the discrimination and persecution of the Jews |
| propaganda | false or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to convince people to sway to a certain opinion |
| sadistic | gratification gained through causing pain or degradation to others; enjoyment from being extremely cruel |
| swastika | an ancient symbol used by the Nazis as their emblem |
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