Holocaust and World War II Vocabulary

A comprehensive set of vocabulary terms and definitions derived from the lecture notes concerning the Third Reich, the Holocaust, and related historical concepts.

Annex

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Anti-Semitism

People that are mean to jewish people and are anti-jewish

Aryan

A mythical race of people with blue eyes and blonde hair, claimed superior to other races.

Concentration Camp

Camps the nazis put jews in to work or to die

Discrimination

Bad treatment of people of a certain age, religion or gender.

Fascism

A dictatorship in which the nation is prioritized over people

Fuhrer

German word for father, or the tidal adolf hitler gave himself.

Genocide

The murder of a group of people based on ethnicalled or other perceived different with hopes of destroying that group

Gestapo

The people nazis put in charge of jews in concentration camps to make sure their working

Ghetto

What nazis built around certain areas so nobody can leave.

Holocaust

When adolf hitler lead the nazis into killing and putting jews in concentration camps

Kristallnacht

An organized pogrom against germen jews during the night of november 9 1938

Lebensraum

The nazi belief that their people needed more space to be comfy

Nazi

The party that ruled over germany during WW2 lead be adolf hitler

Pogrom

Organized acts of violence against jewish people

Prejudice

Pre-judging people without sufficient knowledge, often based on stereotypes.

Ration

Little food that can be used for a while by eating it slowly and in small portion

Scapegoat

A person blamed for something they are not responsible for

Segregation

When races are treated differently in society and not let in certain areas

SS- Schutzstaffel

The nazi soldiers. The SS carried out the holocaust

Stereotype

A belief of a group of people without knowing individual evidence

Reich (Third)

Nazi germany(third empire)

Wehrmacht

The german army