AP Euro - Vocab Set 1 (Night)

Anti-Semitism

Discrimination or persecution of Jews

Appelplatz

Roll call area inside concentration, labor, and death camps

Aryan

Racial term used by the Nazis to describe a “race” they believed to be superior; has no biological validity

Concentration Camp

Place where political prisoners were kept

Crematorium

Furnaces where human bodies were burned

Deportation

Forced removal of Jews in Nazi-occupied lands to concentration camps

Death Camps

Nazi centers of murder and extermination

Death Marches

Marches imposed upon prisoners by the Nazis to prevent liberation by Allied forces

Einsatzgruppen

SS killing units that sought out and slaughtered Jews in the USSR

Euthanasia

Policy of “mercy killing” of the old and handicapped

Final Solution

Nazi term for the annihilation of Jews in Europe

Genocide

Systematic killing of a specific group of people or nation

Gestapo

Nazi secret state police

Ghetto

Section of a city where Jews (or any group) were forced to live

Holocaust

Term used to refer to the systematic murder of six million Jews by the Nazis

Juden

German word for “Jews”

Judenrat

Head of the Jewish council established by the Nazis in the ghettos

Kristallnacht

“Night of the Broken Glass”; Nazi-organized riot against Jews

Nazi

Acronym for National Socialist German Workers Party

Pogroms

Organized acts of persecution or massacre of a specific group of people

Racism

Practice of discrimination and persecution based on race

Scapegoat

Innocent person or group blamed for the problems of another

Selection

Procedure used to determine who would live and who would die

Swastika

Symbol of the Nazi party

Yellow Star

Yellow cloth Star of David sewn to clothing to identify Jews

Zyklon-B

Gas used to kill people in the gas chambers