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Memoir | a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources. |
Concentration Camps | a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities |
Propaganda | information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. |
Nuremburg Laws | The Nuremberg Laws were two laws which excluded the Jews from German life, as well as took away some of their natural rights 1935. |
Holocaust | destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war |
Prejudice | preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. |
Genocide | the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation |
Anti-Semitism | hostility to or prejudice against Jews. |
Irony | a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character. |
Motif | a decorative design or pattern |
Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning |
Theme | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. |
Aryan | relating to or denoting a people speaking an Indo-European language who invaded northern India in the 2nd millennium BC, displacing the Dravidian and other aboriginal peoples. |
Displacement | the moving of something from its place or position. |
Euthanasia | he painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. The practice is illegal in most countries. |
Final Solution | the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, the policy resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in concentration camps between 1941 and 1945 |