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06/01/2011

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Aryan
Definition

–noun

1.
Ethnology a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who 
spoke Indo-European.
2.
(in Nazi doctrine) a non-Jewish Caucasianespecially of Nordic stock.

 

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Einsatzgruppen
Definition
SS paramilitary death squads that took part in the systematic killing of mostly civilians, including: Jews, communists, intellectuals, and others.
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Anti-semitism
Definition

–noun

discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.

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Zyklon B
Definition
the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide infamous for its use by Nazi Germany against human beings in gas chambers of extermination camps during the Holocaust
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Stereotype
Definition
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing
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Fuhrer
Definition
A ruthless, tyrannical leader.
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Typhus
Definition
An infectious disease caused by rickettsiae, characterized by a purple rash, headaches, fever, and usually delirium, and historically a cause of high mortality during wars and famines.
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Prejudice
Definition
Preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience
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Perpetrator
Definition
Someone who is responsible for something; someone who commits something
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Reichstag
Definition
The main legislature of the German state under the Second and Third Reichs
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Definition
the Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German occupied Poland during World War II
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Righteous Among the Nations
Definition
non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust
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