| Term | Definition |
|---|
| aggressor nation | a powerful nation that takes over a less powerful nation |
| allies | US, Britain, France, Russia |
| Aryan | master race by blood |
| Axis powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| "Canada" | large warehouse at Auswitz |
| concentration camps | a prison camp; surrounded by barbed wire, hundreds of camps, systematic starvation |
| contragenic | someone unworthy of life |
| Crystal night | November 9, 1938 |
| death camp | a camp built especially for killing Jews by gas |
| Final Solution | the Nazi plan to murder Jews with the use of gas |
| Fuhrer | supreme leaders |
| genocide | the goal: we will eliminate all Jews from Europe |
| Gestapo | Nazi secret state police: highly feared |
| ghettos | special area in a city for Jews to live |
| Holocaust | great burning; "Shoah" |
| Kapo | a Jewish prisoner in charge of other Jews |
| Mein Kampf | Nazi bible; (My struggle) |
| Nazi | National Socialist German workers party |
| Nuremberg Trials | November 20, 1945; 22 Nazi on trial; all found guilty |
| Operation Reinhard | nickname for the death camps in Poland, named after Reinhard |
| Partisans | lived in the forest outside of camps, Jews who helped Jews, dyed fighting |
| pogrom | a surprise attack against a defenseless Jewish community |
| propaganda | any deliberate method to persuade people |
| resistance | secret network all over Europe |
| SA | "brown shirts" private little army with little power |
| SD | security service, for top Nazi officials |
| Sonderkommando | Jewish prisoners in charge of the disposal of bodies |
| SS | "the black shirts": "the deaths head' skull and cross bone pin. ran the death camps |
| selection | the process of determining who lived and who died |
| semite | in 1873 Jews were this race |
| Star of David | symbol of Jewish faith |
| swastika | the symbol of the Nazi party |
| third reich | third empire; was intended to last 1,000 years, lasted 12 |
| typhus | highly contagious disease that is spread by lice |
| zionists | Jews that believed in a nation of Israel in Palestine |
| Zyklon B | the gas used in the death camps |
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