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| Anti-Semitism | Discrimination or persecution of Jews. |
| Aryan | Racial term used by Nazis to describe a "race" they believed to be superior. It has no biological validity. |
| Concentration Camp | Place where political prisoners where kept. |
| Crematorium | Furnaces where human bodies were burned. |
| Deportation | The forced removal of Jews in Nazi occupied lands to concentration camps. |
| Death Camps | Nazi centers of murder and extermination. |
| Death Marches | The marches imposed upon prisoners by the Nazis in order to keep them from liberation by the Allied forces. |
| Euthanasia | The policy of "mercy killing" the old and handicaped. |
| Final Solution | The Nazi term for annihilation of the Jews in Europe. |
| Genocide | The systematic elimination of a people or nation. |
| Gestapo | Abbreviation for Geheime Staatspolizei (secret state police.) |
| Ghetto | The section of a city where Jews were forced to live. |
| Holocaust | Term used to refer to the systematic murder of 6 millon Jews by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. Also included the extermination of Gypsies and Poles. |
| Juden | German name for Jews. |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of the broken glass" Nazi organized riot against the Jews on Nov. 9-10, 1938. |
| Nazi | Acronym for the National Socialist German Workers Party. |
| Pogroms | Organized acts of persecution or massacre of a specific group of people. |
| prejudice | An attitude toward a person or group of people formed without adequate information. |
| Racism | Pratice of discrimination and persecution on the basis of a race. |
| Scapegoat | An innocent person blamed for the problems of another. |
| Selection | The procedure used to determine who would live and who would die and who would work in labor camps. Usually carried out by doctors. |
| Swastika | The symbol of the Nazi Party; originally an ancient religous symbol. |
| Yellow Star | Yellow cloth Star of David sewn to clothing to identify Jews. |
| Zyklon-B | The gas used to kill Jews in the gas chambers at the death camps. |
| Jungvolk | a chapter of the Hitler Youth for boys ages 10 - 14 |
| Fuhrer | German word for "Father" used to refer to Hitler |
| Propaganda | media-driven messages spread by an organization to promote strong ideas |
