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Holocaust Class
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Undergraduate 3
03/08/2011

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Malmedy
Definition
location of massacre of American POW's (72)
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Battle of the Bulge
Definition
Hitler's last attempt to try to win the war
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Waften SS
Definition
Germans who murdered 72 Americans discovered in snow
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Peiper
Definition
sent to prison/ convicted at dachau
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John Demjanjuk
Definition
dragged out of Cleveland. Israelis thought he was this bad guy, was convicted, found out wrong, but he did do bad things in Germany (where his trial is)
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Bolzano
Definition
a transit camp for Italian jews before Auschwitz
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Michael Sifert
Definition
died last November, originally Ukrainian (German family) Lost his job and joined the SS, went to Bolzano disappeared and year 2000 was discovered in Vancouver, sent to Verona for trials, sent to life in prison in Rome
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Weimar- Republic
Definition
unsuccessful, that Germany had before Hitler came to power
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Nuremberg Laws
Definition
it is possible to be mixed race ½ Christian and ½ Jewish
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April Primo Levi
Definition
Chemist who was in a Civilian outfit behind the lines and admits he is Jewish and chronicles about Auschwitz and allows himself to be victimized
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SonderKommandos
Definition
responsible for pushing people out of gas chambers and incinerating them
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Scapegoat
Definition
when you go in and take something
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Judaism
Definition
the importance of monotheism
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Monotheism
Definition
more concerned about this world
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What are the 2 covenants of Judaism
Definition
Abraham and Sinai
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What's is the difference of the messiah in Judaism
Definition
Jews dont think of messiah as a godly figure
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What is the talmud
Definition
the oral interpretation of the torah
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Tallit
Definition
613 fringes for 613 commandments
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Tefilin
Definition
Inside Shema, sigh of piety
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Shema Shiva
Definition
8 days/ parents- 30 days
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Sephardic Jews
Definition
o Those who resuited from the inquisition of 1492
o More in Israel than Ashkenazai
o Many N. Africa, Greece
o Before the Holocaust, in Turkey and Middle East
o After Israel was founded in 1948, many left Iraq and Iran
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Ashkenazi
Definition
o Primarily Jewish Germans, over centuries who moved to Eastern Europe and Poland

o Verona more Ashkenazi, Rome more Sephardic
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Wilhelm Marr
Definition
founded leaguer of Anti-Semitism in 1879- defined as hatred of Jewish People
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Classical Anti-Semitism
Definition
of ancient people towards Jews which was triggered by cultural/ religions conflict
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Christian Anti-Semitism (Primarily religious conflict)
Definition
• The original conflict can be traced to the time period after Jesus death when Christianity was emerging

- Jews refusing to accept Jesus as their Messiah
- Jews held responsible for Jesus' Death
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Modern Anti-Semitism
Definition
Based on Race
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Otto Von Bismarck
Definition
• He was responsible for unifying and establishing a powerful German state and keeping the peace• He was responsible for unifying and establishing a powerful German state and keeping the peace

his accomplishments were central bands, a common currency, a single code of commercial and civil law. He is the father of German Social security and the German Welfare state
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Brown Shirts
Definition
feared group that would descend military tradition group
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THE SA
Definition
stormtroopers, brownshirts
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THE SS
Definition
Hitler's elite guard under Henrich Himler, must be racially pure
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The Gestapo
Definition
Secret police
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The SD
Definition
The security device, had to member of the SS
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Michling of the 2nd Degree
Definition
Person descended from 1 Jewish grandparent
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Michling of the 1st Degree
Definition
Persons descended from 2 Jewish grandparents, but not belonging to the Jewish religion and not married to a Jewish person on September 15th, 1935
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Jew
Definition
persons descended from 2 Jewish grandparents belonging to Jewish religion or married to a Jewish person on September 15th 1935 and persons descended from 3 or 4 grandparents
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Regulation of Marriages
Definition
o German-German
o Jew/ Jew
o Milling of the 2nd degree/ German
o Michling of the 1st degree/ michling of the 1st degree
o Michling of the 1st degree/ Jew
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Prohibited except by special consent
Definition
 Michling of the 1st degree- German
 Micling of the 1st degree/ michling of the 2nd degree
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What is the difference between having a jewish wife/ or german wife and being married to a german husband/ jewish husband
Definition
if you are a german wife/ jewish husband and are childless you are not privileged, but if you are a jewish wife/ german husband and are childless you are privileged
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Kristallnacht
Definition
(Night of the Broken Glass)- November 9th, 1938
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The Tale of Herschel Grynszpan
Definition
o Young Polish Jew who found is way to Paris, but his parents lived in Berlin
o At this time Hitler, decides to expel all Jews to Poland, but the Pols will not accept them
o Von Rath is assassinated and this brings things back to Germany
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Rhineland Occupation
Definition
• It increased Hitler’s domestic popularity
• It established his superiority as a military strategist
• It encouraged aggression against Austria, Czech and ultimately Poland
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The Takeover of Austria
Definition
o Austria becomes part of Reich
o Measures on Jews extremely harsh
o No response to aggression makes the European situation worse
o Hitler gains strategic advantage
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3 major ghettos
Definition
warsaw, lodz, krakow
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Judenrat
Definition
o They consisted of the most prominent Jewish leaders
o They had power over the Jewish community but were powerless against Germans
o Because of this, they were sometimes viewed as accomplices to the extermination
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Barbarossa decree
Definition
removed the actions of German soldiers toward Russian civilians from the jurisdiction of military courts and explicitly approved collective reprisal against entire villages
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Einsatzgruppen
Definition
mobile killing squads
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Babi Yar
Definition
Massacre in the Ukraine approximately 34,000 Jews were murdered outside Kiev during September, 1941
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Trawiniki
Definition
book uses it interchangeable, but it’s a place where the Hiwis and other members of the SS were trained
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The T-4 Program
Definition
Nazi German effort --framed as a euthanasia program-- to kill incurably ill, physically or mentally disabled, emotionally distraught, and elderly
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The Wannsee Conference
Definition
formulated common procedures whereby all of Europe's 11 million Jews were to be rounded up and 'resettled' in the east.
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Operation Reinhard
Definition
The mass gassing of the Jews in the General Government (which gathered momentum in 1942)
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Sonderkommandos
Definition
Those responsible for the gold removal and cremation
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Italian Operation
Definition
Move into Sicily and its very hard to fight there

Italian King, Emanuel, attempts to make an agreement with the allies and kidnaps Mussolini
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D-Day
Definition
A planned invasion of western Europe

Battle of the Bulge- September 1944
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Yalta conference
Definition
The major purpose was to plan for the re- establishment of Europe in the post-war period
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Potsdam Conference
Definition
• A 4-powered allied control council is to rule Germany formalizes the division of Germany and Berlin
• An ultimatum is issued to Japan- unconditional surrender or total destruction
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The international military tribunal
Definition
in Nuremberg this is the only trial conducted jointly by the allies; the us, British, French and USSR
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IMT (international military tribunal)
Definition
o U.S. Great Britain, France and Soviet Union (4 Allies)
• The only trial that involves all four of the nations
o 21 major actors in Nazi regime are tried
o 14 executed
o Hans Frankislst
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Karl Wolff
Definition
SS Commander in Verona
Germans tried him in 1965
Bad guy of all of Northern Italy
Italy was not occupied by the Germans until September 1943
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Benito Mussolini
Definition
Very powerful, ran Italian
Returns to Italy as a Socialist Journalist
Mussolini supported Italy entering the War
Forms the Fascist party
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Luigi Lizzaiti
Definition
Italy had a Jewish Prime Minister in 1910
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Pietro Bodoglio
Definition
new “Prime Minister”
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Mussomen
Definition
Skeleton
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Intellectual
Definition
someone who is concerned with ideas, they don’t necessarily have to have an education, but the two things correlate
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Latern Accords
Definition
• Vaticans believed there catholic to be superior michling marriages because whatever they authorize goes
• Vatican as a small independent state
• Financial support to the church encouraged Mussolini followers, which in turn was overthrown when he violated marriage laws against the church
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Why was the Holocaust a unique genocide?
Definition
it was unique in its bureaucratic efforts
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Head of the Gestapo
Definition
German Goring
Term
The SD Security Service
Definition
Reinhard Heydrich
Term
Head of SS
Definition
Henrich Himler
Term
Luigi Maglione
Definition
Secretary of state of the vatican
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Francesco Borgoni Duca
Definition
The Vatican's Representative to Italy
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Delasem
Definition
Jewish refugee organization during the racial laws
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Ferramonti
Definition
Camp where most Jews put in Italy
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Fr. Lipinot
Definition
Priest of Capuchin
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Capuchin
Definition
Church who harbored Jewish Refugees
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Ustasha
Definition
Crotian mostly Catholic Nazis
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Pavelic
Definition
a murderer who allowed all of this to go in Croatia
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Vichy Government
Definition
The collaboration government formed in France, a puppet government that would put up with them
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Herbert Kappler
Definition
SS Commander in Rome
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Wirth
Definition
Charge of camps Lublin
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Fossoli
Definition
Main internament camp with Jews in Italy, if they were sent directly to Auschwitz
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Stangil
Definition
Commandmant in Treblica
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