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allies | the nations fighting Germany, Japan, and Italy during WWII (primarily the US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union) |
anti-Semitism | the hatred of Jewish people |
campaign | a series of military operations in a particular area or for a particular purpose as part of a war |
censored | materials were prevented from being published so the truth could be hidden |
concentration camps | the Nazi's created these camps to imprison all of their "enemies". |
deportation | the forced removal of Jews in Nazi-occupied countries from their homes |
discriminate | to treat someone differently because of their race |
Georg Duckwitz | a member of the German government in occupied Denmark who warned the Danes that Germany was planning to depart all the Jewish people |
the final solution | the Nazi's name for the plan to murder all of the Jewish people of Europe |
gas chambers | places built by the Nazis to kill a group of people by filling the room with a deadly gas |
genocide | the deliberate and systematic murder of a religious, racial, national, or cultural group |
ghetto | a poor section of a city where all Jews from the surrounding areas were forced to reside |
Holocaust | the destruction of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their followers in Europe between the years 1933-1945 |
inferior race | the groups of people that the Nazis thought were of a lower class such as Jews, gypsies, and Slavic people |
Adolph Hitler | the leader of the Nazi party in Germany |
Nazi | a political movement and later a form of government that developed in Germany in the 1920's, symbol was the swastika |
neutral country | a country that takes neither side in a war (Sweden and Denmark in WWII) |
occupied/occupation | control of a country by a foreign military power |
pact | a treaty of an agreement between countries |
persecution | the act of treating people in a cruel or harmful way |
refugee | a person who has run to a foreign country for safety |
resistance | the "underground" organizations working to help the Jews against Hitler and the Nazi army |
Slavic | people from Bulgaria, Poland, and Russia among others that the Nazis thought were inferior to them |
Swastika | an ancient religious symbol (a hooked cross) that became the official symbol of the Nazi Party and is now banned in Germany |
synagogue | a Jewish church |
Thereseinstadt | a ghetto in Eastern Europe that captured Danish Jews were taken |
unrest | a disturbed or uneasy state |
yellow star | the six-pointed Star of David was a Jewish symbol that the Nazis forced Jews above the age of six to wear as a mark of shame and to make Jews visible |