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| Allies | The nations fighting Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during World War II, primarily Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States. |
| Auschwitz | The largest and most notorious concentration, labor and death camp where 1.6 million died; located near Oswiecim, Poland. |
| Axis | The Axis powers, originally Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, extended to Japan when it entered the war. |
| Concentration Camp | Camps in which Jews were imprisoned by the Nazis, located in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. There were three different kinds of camps: transit, labor and extermination. Many prisoners in concentration camps died within months of arriving from violence or starvation. |
| Crematorium | Ovens built in concentration camps to burn and dispose of the large number of murdered bodies. |
| Final Solution | Term used by the Nazis to describe their plan to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe. |
| Gestapo | The secret state police of the German army, organized to stamp out any political opposition. |
| Holocaust | Holocaust |
| Mein Kampf | Hitler’s autobiography in which he outlined his ideas, beliefs and plans for the future of Germany. |
| Nazi | Name for members of the NSDAP, National Socialist Democratic Workers Party, who believed in the idea of Aryan supremacy. |
| Partisans | Groups of organized guerilla fighters who aimed to damage the German war effort by attacking military targets, often using the forest for cover. |
| Third Reich | The Third Empire; name given to the Nazi regime in Germany; Hitler boasted that the Third Reich would reign for 1,000 years. |
| Swastika | Once an ancient symbol used to ward off evil spirits, the Nazis adopted it as their official symbol. |
| Versailles Treaty | Peace treaty ending the First World War, creating many of the issues of bitterness between European countries and, especially, a feeling of resentment by Germans. |
| Warsaw Ghetto | Largest ghetto in Poland covering 100 square blocks where approximately 500,000 Jews were contained from 1939 until May 1943. |
| Weimar Republic | The new democratically elected government in Germany following the end of World War I. |
