| Term | Definition |
|---|
| aggressor nation | powerful nation that takes over a less powerful nation |
| allies | US, Britain, France, Russia |
| aryan | Master race |
| axis powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| "Canada" | Warehouse of prisoner belongings |
| concentration camp | A prison camp surrounded by barbed wire which had a policy of systematic starvation |
| contragenic | all people unworthy to live |
| crystal night | nov. 9, 1938 (pogrom) |
| death camp | A camp built for killing Jews by gas |
| final solution | nazi plan to murder jews through the use of gas |
| fuhrer | supreme leader of germany |
| genocide | murder of a race |
| gestapo | nazi state secret police |
| ghettos | special area of a city for jews to live |
| holocaust | great burning (Shoah) |
| kapo | jewish prisoner in charge of other jewish prisoners |
| mein kampf | "my struggle", becomes the bible of the nazi movement |
| nazi | National Socialist German Workers Party |
| nuremberg trials | Nov. 20, 1945; 22 Nazis on trial; all pleaded not guilty |
| operation reinhard | nickname of the murder of polish jews |
| partisans | groups of jews living in the forest |
| pogrom | surprise attack against a defenseless jewish community |
| propaganda | any deliberate method to pursued people |
| resistance | a secret resistance all over europe |
| SA | "Brown Shirt", private army, not a lot of power, disbanded |
| SD | Security service, they harass jews |
| sonderkommando | Jewish prisoners disposed of gas chamber bodies |
| SS | "Black Shirts", deaths head brigade, elite most powerful, ran death camps |
| selection | the process of deciding who lived or died |
| Semite | born a jew (jew by blood), can't change religion |
| Star of David | Religious symbol of the jewish faith |
| swastika | symbol of the nazi party |
| Third Reich | empire; supposed to last 1000 years |
| Typhus | highly contagious, spread by lice |
| Zionists | Jews who believed in the nation of israel in palestine |
| zyklon B | gas used in gas chambers |
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