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Holocaust (HMS)
Holocaust (HMS)
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8th Grade
02/01/2010

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Final Solution
Definition
Hitler's plan to annihilate the Jews
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anti-semitism
Definition
hatred of the Jews
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Aryans
Definition
Hitler's master race - "supermen"
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Nuremberg Laws
Definition
strips Jews of their rights and defines "Jewishness"
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Mischling
Definition
mixed Jewish ancestry - 1st or 2nd degreee
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Kristallnacht
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Night of Broken Glass
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Kindertransport
Definition
rescue of Jewish children - sent to United Kingdom
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Dachau
Definition
1st Concentration Camp
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Chelmno
Definition
1st. Death (Extermination) Camp
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Auschwitz-Birkenau
Definition
largest of all the camps(Concentration & Death camp) 1.1 million killed
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Poland
Definition
location of all the Death Camps
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Star of David
Definition
Jews had to wear this after WWII started
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Mein Kampf
Definition
Hitler's ideas about Jews, Aryans, the 3rd Reich- all written here
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Beer Hall Putsch
Definition
gave him national recogonition and helped spread his ideas
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ghettoes
Definition
Jews were concentrated here before the camps
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Soviet Union
Definition
liberated the most camps - 10
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Poland
Definition
2.9 million Jews where killed in this country
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Sobibor and Majdanek
Definition
first camps liberated
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Jewish population increased
Definition
Portugal, Sweden, and Great Britain have what in common
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Nuremberg Trials
Definition
leading Nazis are held accountable for their war crimes
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Jesse Owens
Definition
American who embarassed Aryan "supermen" in the 1936 Olympics
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Adolf Eichmann
Definition
"Architect of the Holocaust"
escaped to Argentina
executed in Israel in 1962
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Rudolf Hess
Definition
Hitler's Deputy and #3 man
tried at Nuremberg; life sentence
suicide in 1987 at age 93
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Herman Goering
Definition
Luftwaffe commander
Hitler's #2 and successor
death sentence at Nuremberg; suicide
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Klaus Barbie
Definition
"Butcher of Lyon"; escaped to Bolivia
caught and tried in France;life sentence
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Heinrich Himmler
Definition
Chief of German Police and Con. Camps
suicide before Nuremberg
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Joseph Mengele
Definition
"Angel of Death" Medical experimenter at Auschwitz; lived out his days in South America
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Joseph Goebbels
Definition
Minister of Propoganda; planned Kristallnacht
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Simon Wiesenthal
Definition
Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter
captured Gestapo soldier that found Anne Frank
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The Mossad
Definition
Israeli Inteeligence Agency ; Nazi hunters; caught Eichmann
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