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| The nations fighting Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during World War II, primarily Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States. |
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| The German annexation of Austria in March 1938. |
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| Dislike or hatred of the Jews. |
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| Term used by the Nazis to describe northern European physical characteristics (such as blonde hair and blue eyes) as racially “superior”. |
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| The Axis powers, originally Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, extended to Japan when it entered the war. |
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| A ravine near Kiev where almost 34,000 Jews were killed by German soldiers in two days in September 1941. |
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| Death camp located in southeastern Poland alongside a main railway line; between 550,000 and 600,000 Jews were killed there. |
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| One of the first major concentration camps on German soil. |
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| Camps in which Jews were imprisoned by the Nazis, located in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. There were three different kinds of camps: transit, labor and extermination. Many prisoners in concentration camps died within months of arriving from violence or starvation. |
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| Ovens built in concentration camps to burn and dispose of the large number of murdered bodies. |
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