| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Dachau | first concentration camp |
| aggressor nation | a powerful country that takes over a weaker country |
| Allies | US, Britain, France, Russia |
| Aryan | master race |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| "Canada" | 3 large warehouses in Auschwitz holding the clothes and belongings of Jews |
| concentration camp | work/prison camp surrounded by barbed wire with systematic starvation |
| contragenic | enemy of the state |
| Crystal Night | Nov. 9&10, 1938; giant pogrom around Germany |
| death camp | camp built especially for killing Jews by gas (in Poland) |
| Final Solution | the Nazi plan to kill Jews through the use of gas with the ultimate goal of genocide |
| Fuhrer | supreme leader |
| genocide | complete elimination of a race of people |
| Gestapo | secret state police (Hermann Guerring= leader) |
| ghettos | special area in a city for Jews to live |
| Holocaust | Greek for "great burning" or "destruction by fire" |
| kapo | Jewish prisoner in charge of concentration work group |
| Mein Kampf | My Struggle; Hitler's book |
| Nazi | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| Nuremberg Trials | Nazis were tried for crimes against humanity |
| Operation Reinhard | nickname for the murder of all Jews in Poland (final solution) |
| partisans | Jewish prisoners who had escaped and were living in the forest and fought back |
| propaganda | a deliberate method to spread ideas |
| Resistance | secret underground network all over Europe that battled the Nazis |
| SA | brown shirts/private army |
| SD | police force |
| Sonderkommando | Jew temporarily spared to work in the death camps |
| SS | black shirts/death squad |
| selection | process of who lived and who died |
| Semite | a Jew by birth or blood that could not be changed |
| Star of David | symbol of the Jewish faith |
| swastika | symbol of the Nazi Party |
| Third Reich | Third Empire; supposed to last 1,000 years |
| typhus | a contagious disease spread by lice |
| Zionists | believers in the eventual Jewish nation of Israel in Palestine |
| zyklon B | gas experimented with for killing Jews |
| pogrom | a surprise attack on a defenseless community |
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