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| term used for any non-military campaign to further Nazi ideals of race, but most often referred to the assembly and deportation of Jews to concentration or death camps. |
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| was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. |
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| prejudice, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as a national, ethnic, religious or racial group. |
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| a racial grouping commonly used in the period of the late 19th century to the mid-20th century to describe peoples of European and Western Asian heritage. |
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| an Anglicized term describing a method of warfare whereby an attacking force spearheaded by a dense concentration of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations, and heavily backed up by close air support, forces a breakthrough into the enemy's line of defense through a series of short, fast, powerful attacks; and once in the enemy's territory, proceeds to dislocate them using speed and surprise, and then encircle them. |
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| a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks in the camp. |
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| a title often given to the officer in charge of a military (or other uniformed service) training establishment or academy. |
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| a scattered population with a common origin in a smaller geographic area. |
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| refers to the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering. |
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| was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe, which resulted in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe. |
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| the systematic destruction of all or part of a racial, ethnic, religious or national group. |
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| the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. |
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| a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure. |
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| the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, throughout the German Reich and German-occupied territories. |
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| were administrative bodies during the Second World War that the Germans required Jews to form in the German occupied territory. |
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| an important component of Nazi ideology in Germany. |
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| a derogatory term used among captives of World War II Nazi concentration camps to refer to those suffering from a combination of starvation (known also as "hunger disease") and exhaustion and who were resigned to their impending death. |
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| the codename given to a decree of December 7, 1941, issued by Adolf Hitler and signed by Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German Armed Forces High Command. |
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| were anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. |
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| a German word that could be roughly translated as "nation" or "realm." |
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| In a world of total moral collapse there was a small minority who mustered extraordinary courage to uphold human values. |
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| a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. |
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| a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. |
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| the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, was established in 1953 by an act of the Israeli Knesset. |
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| the national movement of Jews and Jewish culture that supports the creation of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the Land of Israel. |
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| the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in the early 1920s. |
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