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pogrom
Definition
organized violence directed against Jews, russian for "devastation"
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genocide
Definition
the partial or total destruction of a racial, religious, or national group. can be done with direct or indirect means.
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8 stages of genocide
Definition
1. classification
2. symbolization
3. dehumanization
4. organization
5. polarization
6. preparation
7. extermination
8. denial
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ghetto
Definition
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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madagascar plan
Definition
breifly considered notion by Germany to ship 4 million jews to the island of madagascar
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mein kampf
Definition
"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
Definition
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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mischlinge
Definition
"bastard" - nazi classification for people of jewish-christian percentage
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nuremberg laws
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german legislation, which deprived jews of citizenship rights, passed in 1938. modeled after jim crow laws.
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munich agreement
Definition
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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munich agreement
Definition
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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munich agreement
Definition
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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munich agreement
Definition
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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munich agreement
Definition
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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anschluss
Definition
german annexation of austria, march 1938
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final solution
Definition
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)
Definition
"night of broken glass" - novemeber 9-10, 1938 - pogrom carried out in Greater Germany; fires set to synagogues, jewish business'
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einsatzgruppen
Definition
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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upstander
Definition
people who risk everything to save human life
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judenrat
Definition
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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kapo
Definition
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)
Definition
like hitler jugend for women, essentially to grow up and "marry an ss guard and have nazi babies"
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aufseherin
Definition
"overseer" women who were camp guards would oversee prisoners (though all camps were headed by men)
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displaced persons camps
Definition
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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nuremburg trials
Definition
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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columbia haus
Definition
camp and experimentation center; eventually shut down by nazis because it was too violent
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lebensraum
Definition
room to live, euphemism for german policy of expansion.

himmler played a large part in the "thrust to the east"
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NSDAP
Definition
national socialist german workers party- Nazis
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boycott
Definition
nazi discourage german public to stop all economic dealings with jews, april 1933
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aryanization
Definition
nazis force jewish business' to sell to aryans at a bargain price
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de-nazification
Definition
removal of nazis from important positions by the allies at the end of the war
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appell
Definition
roll call, often lasting hours, used in concentration camps
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abwehr
Definition
german military counterintelligence
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allied control of commission
Definition
organization pf senior administrators of the military zones of post war germany
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der steurmer
Definition
"the attacker"- julius streicher's violently anti semitic weekly newspaper
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evian conference
Definition
international conference held in 1938, which failed to alleviate the refuge problem
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gauleiter
Definition
nazi administrative leader in a "gau" (district"
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gestapo
Definition
"geheime staatspolizei" nazi's secret state police
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lager
Definition
camp, as in concentration or extermination camp
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lebensborn
Definition
himmler's program of increasing aryan population
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musselmen
Definition
term denoting a concentration camp prisoner who had given up the struggle to stay alive
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putsch
Definition
attempted coup d'etat
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righteous nations
or
righteous gentiles
Definition
non-jews who saved jewish lives during the holocaust
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SA
Definition
brownshirts; nazi political stormtroopers
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SS
Definition
blackshirts; elite of the nazi political storm troopers
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shtetl
Definition
eastern european town or village with large jewish population
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reichsfuhrer
Definition
special ss rank, most commonly known by the rank of himmler from 1929-1945
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herta oberheuser
Definition
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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totenkopfdivision
Definition
death head squads
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aktion reinhard
Definition
code name for the nazi operation involving the deportation and/or killing of the jews
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frauen lager
Definition
womens camps
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frauen warte
Definition
nazi magaizine for women
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extermination camp
Definition
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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concentration camp
Definition
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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adolph eichmann
Definition
heydrich's "secretary"- carries out final solution
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