Holocaust Vocabulary

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The "night of the broken glass" when Nazis vandalized Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues.

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Kristallnacht

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Opposition and discrimination that is targeted against Jews is known as:

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Antisemitism

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The SS were:

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Hitler's personal bodygaurds and agents of destruction

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The destruction of some six million Jews by the Nazis in Europe between the years of 1933-1945.

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Holocaust

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Genocide is:

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The deliberate and systematic destruction of a race, ethnic, cultural, or religious group

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What was a concentration camp?

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a place where large numbers of people, especially members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned and forced to work

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Who were the German state secret police?

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The Gestapo

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Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause

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propaganda

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What does persecution mean?

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Treating someone cruelly due to their race, religion, or political views

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Certain sections of cities were set aside to imprison Jews, these sections were called

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ghettos