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The Holocaust

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The Holocaust

The systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

genocide

The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

Nazi

A member of the National Socialist German Workers' party of Germany, which in 1933, under Adolf Hitler, seized political control of the country, suppressing all opposition and establishing a dictatorship over all activities of the people.

Adolf Hitler

Nazi dictator of Germany, born in Austria: Chancellor 1933.

Anti-Semitism

Discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.

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scapegoat

A person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place; in WWII-era Germany, Jews were made a scapegoat for the economic suffering of Germans.

eugenics

The study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits.

concentration camp

A guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc., especially any of the camps established by the Nazis prior to and during World War II for the confinement and persecution of prisoners

Anne Frank

German Jewish girl who died in Belsen concentration camp in Germany: her diaries about her family hiding from Nazis in Amsterdam.

Romany

Pertaining to Gypsies their language, or their customs; an ethnic group systematically murdered by the Nazis in concentration camp.

bloodline

The line of descent; pedigree; strain.

Jew

One of a scattered group of people that traces its descent from the Biblical Hebrews or from postexilic adherents of Judaism; Israelite; an ethnic group systematically murdered by the Nazis in concentration camp.

homosexual

A homosexual person; a group systematically murdered by the Nazis in concentration camp.

opponent

A person who is on an opposing side in a game, contest, controversy, or the like; political opponents of the Nazi party were systematically murdered and detained by the Nazis in concentration camp.

ghetto

(formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.

Kristallnacht

A Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9.

pogrom

An organized massacre, especially of Jews.

An elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. SS

Gestapo

The German state secret police during the Nazi regime, organized in 1933 and notorious for its brutal methods and operations.

labor camp

A penal colony where inmates are forced to work.

Final Solution