Holocaust Flashcards

For my Holocaust journal

Annex

A building added on to a main building When a country adds territory

Anti-Semitism

Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people

Aryan

A mythical, blonde haired, blue eyed race of people that the Nazi claimed were superior to other races

Concentration Camp

A prison camp for people that have not committed crime but society feels must be separated from the general population

Discrimination

The unjust treatment of people based upon ethnic background, age,

Fascism

A dictatorship in which the nation is prioritized over individual people and their freedoms

Fuhrer

Leader in German. The title Adolf Hitler gave himself

Genocide

The murder of a group of people based upon ethnicity or other perceived difference with the aim of destroying that group

Gestapo

The Nazi secret police

Ghetto

Sections of cities in which the Nazi forced the entire Jewish population of the surrounding area to live

Holocaust

The murder of approximately 12 million people by the Nazi government in the 1930´s & and 1940

Kristallnacht

An organized pogrom against German Jews during the night of November 9-10 1938

Lebensraum

¨Living Space¨ The Nazi belief that the German people needed more territory in which to live comfortably (to be taken from other countries)

Nazi

The National Socialist German Workers Party. Adolf Hitlers political party.

Pogrom

Organized acts of violence against Jewish Communities

Prejudice

Prejudging people without sufficient knowledge, often based on stereotypes

Ration

A fixed amount of something allowed to a person during a time of shortage

Scapegoat

A person blamed for something that they are not responsible for

Segregation

Keeping a person(s) apart from others

SS- Schutzstaffel

Nazi ( as opposed to German) soldiers. The SS carried out the Holocaust

Stereotype

An oversimplified belief about a group of people without taking into consideration individual beliefs.

Reich (Third)

Nazi Germany (Third empire)

Wehrmacht

The German Army