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In the Nazi ideology, the pure, superior Germanic (Nordic,
Caucasian) race. |
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Any internment camp for holding "enemies of the
Third Reich." The construction of concentration camps began almost
immediately after Hitler gained power in Germany. There were several
kinds: labor camps, prison camps and death camps. |
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a Yiddish word referring to a walled section of a city in
which Jews were required to live during the Middle Ages. The concept
was revived by the Nazi regime as part of the Final Solution to the
Jewish Question. |
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National Socialist German Workers' Party - the political party
which emerged in Munich after World War I. The party was taken over
by Adolph Hitler in the early 1920's. He created the SA (Storm
Troopers, also known as "Brownshirts") in 1921 and chose the swastika
as the party's symbol. |
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| Large chambers in which people were executed by poison gas. These were built and used in Nazi death camps |
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| A judgment or opinion formed before the facts are known. In most cases, these opinions are founded on suspicion, intolerance, and the irrational hatred of other races, religions, creeds, or nationalities. |
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| Literally, "a completely burned sacrifice." It is one of the terms used to describe the destruction of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators in Europe and North Africa between the years 1933-1945. |
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| A Jewish ID badge worn on the arm or chest that Germans demanded Jews of occupied countries to wear at the risk of being shot. Ultimately, these Jews were discriminated against, maltreated, or worse. |
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| The cover name for the plan to destroy the Jews of Europe - the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Beginning in December 1941, Jews were rounded up and sent to extermination camps in the East. The program was deceptively disguised as "resettlement in the East." |
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