Glossary

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//**Term: holocaust

Definition**//:An act of mass destruction or loss of life

//**Term: Aktion

Definition**: It was a code name for the// extermination camps. It was used in honor of Reinhard Heydrich.

//**Term: Jewish People

Definition:**//The **Jews** ([|Hebrew]: יְהוּדִים‎, //Yehudim//), also known as the **Jewish people**, are an [|ethnoreligious group] originating in the [|Israelites] or [|Hebrews] of the [|Ancient Near East]. The Jewish [|ethnicity], [|nationality], and [|religion] are strongly interrelated, as [|Judaism] is the traditional faith of the Jewish [|nation].


 * //Term: Nazis

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 * Nazism**, known officially in German as **[|National Socialism]**[|[1]][|[2]][|[3]][|[4]] ([|German]: //**Na**tionalso**zi**alismus//), is the [|totalitarian] [|ideology] and practices of the [|Nazi Party] or National Socialist German Workers’ Party under [|Adolf Hitler], and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of [|Nazi Germany] from 1933 to 1945.

//**Term: Death camp

Definition:**// **death camp** (a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed)

//**Term: Auschwitz

Definition:**//**Auschwitz-Birkenau** (// [|Konzentrationslager Auschwitz] ( [|help] ·  )  //) was the largest of [|Nazi Germany's] [|concentration camps] and [|extermination camps], operational during [|World War II].


 * //Term: concentration camp

Definition://** A camp where civilians, enemy aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes prisoners of war are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions.


 * //Term: Master race

Definition://**The origins of the Nazi version of the theory of the master race were in [|19th century] racial theories of Count [|Arthur de Gobineau], who argued that cultures degenerate when distinct races mix. It was believed at this time that [|Southern European] and [|Eastern European] peoples were racially mixed with non-European [|Moors] from across the [|Mediterranean Sea], while [|Northern Europeans] remained pure. Proponents of Nordic theory further argued that Nordic peoples had developed innate toughness and determination due to the harsh, challenging climate in which they evolved. The racial ideal of these theorists was the tall, [|blond] and [|blue] or [|green] eyed Nordic individual.


 * //Term: persecution

Definition://** Excruciating punishment.


 * //Term: World War II

Definition://** A war fought from 1939 to 1945, in which Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and other allies defeated Germany, Italy, and Japan.


 * //Term: Numremberg Trials

Definition://** series of military trials, or military tribunals, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of [|Nazi Germany] after its defeat in [|World War II]. The trials were held in the city of [|Nuremberg], Germany, from 1945 to 1946, at the [|Palace of Justice].

//**Term: International Red Cross**//

//**Definition:**// Humanitarian organization working around the world on an impartial basis to protect and assist people affected by armed conflicts and internal disturbances.

//**Term:**// Ghetto

//**Definition:**// Is generally referred to a place where people from a specific race or a specific ethnic background live together as a group.

//**Term:**// ss guard

//**Definition:**// The SA Protection Squadrons. The elite guard of the Nazi party.

//**Term:**// swastica

//**Definition:**//The swastica was a religous sign for people but now it is referred to the nazi emblem. It can mean su and asati. Su means good,and asati means exist.

//**Term:**// **Fuhrer**

//**Definition:**// German (//der//) //Führer,// literally, the leader (title assumed by Adolf Hitler)

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//**Term: Hitler**//

//**Definition:**he was the dictator or absolute ruler of Germany from 1934 to 1945 and leader of the national Socialist German// Workers party, known as the Nazi party.

//**Term:**// gestapo

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//**Term: judenrat**//

//**Definition:**//were administrated bodies that the germans required jews to form in the german occupied territory of poland and later in the occupied territories of the slave soviet union

//**Term:**// evacuation

//**Definition:**// clearance by removal of troops, equipment, the removal of persons or things from an endangered area.

//**Term:**// Buchenwald

//**Definition: Buchenwald was a concentration**// camp location in weimar.

//**Term:**// Westerbork

//**Definition:Westerbork is a war world 2 concentration camp in the northeastern Netherlands.**//From 1942 to 1944 Westerbork served as a transit camp for Dutch Jews before they were deported to extermination camps in German-occupied Poland.

//**Term:**// death trains

//**Definition:**//the trains transported jews from the romanic city of Ifi. the train cars are made to transport freight and had no win dows.

//**Term:**// Kristallnacht

//**Definition:**//The night of November 9, 1938, on which the Nazis coordinated an attack on Jewish people and their property in Germany and German-controlled lands.

//**Term:**// emigrated

//**Definition:**//to leave one place or country, esp one's native country, in order to settle in another Compare:}

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