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| CONCENTRATIONCAMPS | Where the 'undesirables' were sent to and usually starved or were killed |
| DEATHCAMPS | The worst concentration camps, where there were very few survivors left at the end of the war. |
| HESS | The German National Socialist leader, who became Hitler’s deputy in 1933. He was Hitler's best friend and second in command. He went to England to attempt to negotiate a peace agreement with Great Britain but was arrested as a "war criminal" on May 10, 1941. At the Nuremberg war-crimes trial he was sentenced (1946) to life imprisonment at Spandau prison, where he died. It is questionable whether or not he was sane. |
| NAZI | The party that Hitler was a part of and he wrote a book, which became this groups Bible. The symbol for this party is the swastika. The goal of this group became to kill all Jews and take over the world. |
| HITLER | The cruel dictator of Germany during WWII who hated Jews |
| ANTISEMITISM | the term used for hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group. The term is used for racist dimension that targeted Jews because of their supposed biological characteristics. It implies a discrimination against all Semites, in particular anti-Jewish prejudices. |
| HIMMLER | A early German Nazi leader who was chief of the German police and he controlled the Gestapo, the secret police of Germany. He was one of the most cold-blooded of the Nazi leaders and he was a racist. He oversaw many concentration camps and ordered many people to death. In July 1944, he put down a conspiracy against Hitler and he was the virtual dictator of German domestic policy. Himmler secretly attempted to negotiate German surrender, hoping to save himself at the end of the war. in May, 1945, and committed suicide by swallowing poison because Germany lost the war and he wouldn’t want to have to deal with any consequences. |
| ANNEFRANK | The girl who wrote in her diary about how life was like for the Jews. The book was later published after she died in a concentration camp. |
| AUSCHWITZ | The largest extermination camp, where millions of Jews where killed. The camp is located in Poland. |
| UNDESIREABLES | All the people who Hitler didn't like because they were not of the Aryan Race. |
| FINALSOULTION | What it was called when in 1941, Hitler started killing Jews systematically to try to kill all the Jews. Hitler felt that this was the only way to get rid of the Jews and he decided to kill them systematically. |
| GHETTO | the special areas where the Jews and other “undesirables” where forced to live and work as slave laborers and kept the Jews separated from the rest of the population. The Nazis took all their belongings away. These places had very little food and many people got sick and died in them. People were also shot, especially babies. The German police made sure no one left these areas by putting up watch towers around them. |
| HOLOCAUST | The general term for what the Nazis did to the Jews and other “undesirables” and the time period. It is referred to as the Nazis thorough destruction involving extensive loss and the mass slaughter of Jews in WWII. They killed six million Jewish and about 6 million others, including war The word means a burnt sacrifice offered whole to God in Greek. |
| DAVID | the yellow badge that the Jews were required to wear by the Nazis. Jews were no longer allowed to be citizens, so the Nazis made the Jews wear this badge on the left breast of their cloths so they could be held apart from other people. This badge was called the star of.… |
| GASCHAMBER | where most of the Jews were sent to be killed. These are open rooms with shower nozzles where gas came out off instead of water. The people suffocated for about 20 minutes until they died from the poison. |
| EXTERMINATION | the term used for get rid of completely by killing off. This is what Hitler wanted to do with the Jews. |
| MENGELE | The cruel Nazi doctor who worked and experimented on people at Auschwitz concentration camp, also know as “the angle of death.” He often performed cruel experiments, especially on twins and dwarfs. He liked to experiment on twins because he tried to find a way to make women have more twins, so he could double the German population. He often put Jews in pressure chambers to see the effects it had; the Jews were left in there until they stopped breathing. He also injected blue dye in brown eyed people’s eyes to see if it would work. |
| ARYAN | The ideal race according to Hitler also known as the “master race.” The Aryan race includes people with blond hair, blue eyes, are tall and are large-boned. Hitler wanted to get rid of all other people who did not fit this description perfectly. It is interesting to note that Hitler did not fit this description at all. He had brown hair and was short. But yet Hitler dreamt of a pure Aryan race that would one day take over the world. |
| CREMATORIUM | the place where Jews were sent to be burnt in ovens after they had been killed. The Nazis also sent some people there to make them burn alive. |
| JEWS | The people Hitler blamed for all of Germany's problems |
| ZYKLONB | The gas used to kill people at Auschwitz and Maidanek |
| NUREMBERG | The trials that took place in Germany in 1945, where the Allies accused 22 Nazi officials with the murder of six million Jews and ca. 6 million other “undesirables” and the attempt to exterminate all Jews and other minorities. 11of these people were sentenced to death three were acquitted and the rest received prison terms. |
| SCHINDLER | He was a man who moved to Nazi-occupied Poland to open a factory and employ Jews at starvation wages. At the end of the war, he spent his fortune to save those Jews. He had defrauded the Nazis with a munitions factory that never produced a single usable shell. |
| GENOCIDE | The systematic and planned extermination of an entire group of people, which Hitler tried to do with the Jews. |
| MEINKAMPF | the book the Adolf Hitler wrote while imprisoned (also know as My Struggle in English). In the book, Hitler describes his whole plan to take over the world. First he wanted to kill all the Jews and other “undesirables” and then he wanted to invade neighboring countries and take over them and then take over the rest of the world. |
