| A | B |
|---|
| Nuremberg Laws | robbed the German Jews of their citizenship and banned marriage between Jews and Germans |
| genocide | the killing of a people from the same racial , political, or cultural group |
| Einsatzgruppen | special strike forces whose job was to eliminate the Jewish population |
| concentration camps | prison camps where healthy individuals were enslaved until they dropped dead from exhaustion, disease, or starvation |
| death squads | mobile killing units |
| death camps | camps built for the sole purpose of murdering Jews |
| crematoriums | huge ovens |
| liberate | set free |
| Holocaust | the planned destruction of a people |
| Shoah | Hebrew word for Holocaust |
| war crimes | violations of basic human rights |
