"How could the people of Germany have gravitated to such a ghastly ideology, one that resulted in genocide? After all, their educated culture had produced great minds like Bach, Goethe, and Einstein." What is the meaning of ideology?

"Post-war investigations made it clear that responsibility for the Holocaust reached beyond those in Nazi uniform. Before the mass murders began, German society had hardened into an authoritarian state." What is the meaning of authoritarian?

"Since then, Holocaust survivors, their families, and human rights groups have confronted the kind of hatred, injustice, and passivity that made the Holocaust possible." What is the meaning of passivity?

"Pavel Friedmann wrote that poem in 1942 while imprisoned in a Jewish concentration camp. He died two years later in the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in German-occupied Poland. He was one of more than a million people murdered there." What is the meaning of notorious?

"A short time after the young poet's death, the camp was liberated, on January 27, 1945." What is the meaning of liberated?

"Ever since, Holocaust survivors and human rights activists have continued to organize, confront, and educate. Their mission is to remind new generations that such terrible events must never be allowed to happen again." What is the meaning of survivors?

"After the war, some Nazi leaders were help accountable for their crimes. But the Nazis were only part of the story." What is the meaning of accountable?

"Ever since Holocaust survivors and human rights activists have organized, confronted, and taught about what happened. Their mission is to remind new generations that such terrible events must never be allowed to happen again." What is the meaning of confronted?

"Post-war investigations made it clear that responsibility for the Holocaust went beyond those in Nazi uniform. Before the mass murders began, Germany had become a harsh dictatorship." What is the meaning of dictatorship?