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| organized violence directed against Jews, russian for "devastation" |
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| the partial or total destruction of a racial, religious, or national group. can be done with direct or indirect means. |
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1. classification
2. symbolization
3. dehumanization
4. organization
5. polarization
6. preparation
7. extermination
8. denial |
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| small areas that house jews. in warsaw, poland, a quarter of a milion jews were held in an area designed for 4,000 people |
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| breifly considered notion by Germany to ship 4 million jews to the island of madagascar |
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| "my struggle" book by hitler (as told to eichmann and hessler), which outlines his program. written during hitlers time in jail in 1924. |
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| protocols of the elders of zion |
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anti-semitic book, a forgery claiming of an international plot by jews to attain world domination. claims jews are vampires
still relevant today-studied by hitler, stalin and even saddam hussein |
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| "bastard" - nazi classification for people of jewish-christian percentage |
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| german legislation, which deprived jews of citizenship rights, passed in 1938. modeled after jim crow laws. |
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appeasement policy of england and france, which permitted hitler to take part of czechloslavkia
allows hitler to keep what he has taken but must stop here |
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appeasement policy of england and france, which permitted hitler to take part of czechloslavkia
allows hitler to keep what he has taken but must stop here |
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appeasement policy of england and france, which permitted hitler to take part of czechloslavkia
allows hitler to keep what he has taken but must stop here |
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appeasement policy of england and france, which permitted hitler to take part of czechloslavkia
allows hitler to keep what he has taken but must stop here |
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appeasement policy of england and france, which permitted hitler to take part of czechloslavkia
allows hitler to keep what he has taken but must stop here |
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| german annexation of austria, march 1938 |
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nazi plan to solve jewish problem by annihilation
announced january 1942, but planned well before
eichmann carried out the final solution with use of zyklon b in gas chambers |
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| krisstallnacht (november pogrom) |
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| "night of broken glass" - novemeber 9-10, 1938 - pogrom carried out in Greater Germany; fires set to synagogues, jewish business' |
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mobile killing units of ss and sd members used mainly in poland and russia.
only job is to kill; made up of ss/army/navy/airforce rejects |
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| people who risk everything to save human life |
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jewish council of elders, used by germans in ghetto administration.
jewish men that were rewarded with money, cigarettes, meat to give up other jews |
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prisoner in a concentration camp who was in charge of other inmates.
typically non-jewish prisoners
(nada herbermann was one) |
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| bund deutscher madchen (BDM) |
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| like hitler jugend for women, essentially to grow up and "marry an ss guard and have nazi babies" |
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| "overseer" women who were camp guards would oversee prisoners (though all camps were headed by men) |
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facilities, often former concentration camps, used to house displaced persons in the military zones post war.
conditions often bad; many still in camp uniforms, disease ridden. |
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an international military tribunal that tried 22 nazi leaders, 19 were found guilty of war crimes.
1945 trial of nazis for crimes against humanity. |
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| camp and experimentation center; eventually shut down by nazis because it was too violent |
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room to live, euphemism for german policy of expansion.
himmler played a large part in the "thrust to the east" |
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| national socialist german workers party- Nazis |
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| nazi discourage german public to stop all economic dealings with jews, april 1933 |
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| nazis force jewish business' to sell to aryans at a bargain price |
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| removal of nazis from important positions by the allies at the end of the war |
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| roll call, often lasting hours, used in concentration camps |
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| german military counterintelligence |
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| allied control of commission |
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| organization pf senior administrators of the military zones of post war germany |
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| "the attacker"- julius streicher's violently anti semitic weekly newspaper |
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| international conference held in 1938, which failed to alleviate the refuge problem |
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| nazi administrative leader in a "gau" (district" |
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| "geheime staatspolizei" nazi's secret state police |
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| camp, as in concentration or extermination camp |
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| himmler's program of increasing aryan population |
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| term denoting a concentration camp prisoner who had given up the struggle to stay alive |
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righteous nations
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| non-jews who saved jewish lives during the holocaust |
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| brownshirts; nazi political stormtroopers |
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| blackshirts; elite of the nazi political storm troopers |
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| eastern european town or village with large jewish population |
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| special ss rank, most commonly known by the rank of himmler from 1929-1945 |
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Herta Oberheuser was the only female defendant in the medical trial at nuremburg. She received a 20 year sentence but was released in April 1952.
preformed gruesome and deadly experiments on children in camps during the holocaust. |
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| code name for the nazi operation involving the deportation and/or killing of the jews |
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camps that were designed to systematically kill millions of people by gassing and extreme work under starvation conditions.
Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau)
Chełmno
Belzec
Majdanek
Sobibor
Treblinka |
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| Hitler allowed Himmler to start using the camps' facilities and personnel to purge German society of so-called "racially undesirable elements" such as Jews, criminals, homosexuals, and Romani people. |
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| heydrich's "secretary"- carries out final solution |
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