Holocaust

Genocide

Systematic murder of a specific group

Labor camps

Detention facilities where groups of people were sent to do labor as punishment

Death camps

Camps people were sent to die

Dachau

First regular concentration camp established by Nazi Germany

Auschwitz

Largest complex of over 40 extermination camps operated by Germany

Final solution

Nazi regime plan to systematically kill Jews

Aryan race

White non-jewish group of people who originated from ancient indo-european speakers

Mein Kampf

A book Hitler wrote while he was in prison

Gestapo

Secret police of Nazi Germany

SS-Nazi

They ran concentration camps/Hitlers elite fighting soldier

Holocaust

Genocide of six million Jews

Anti-semitism

Prejudice toward Jewish people

Ghetto

Closed off communities where Jews were forced into

Propaganda

Systematic disseminition of information to influence the public

Scapegoat

A person/group unfairly blamed for mistakes or failures of others

Einsatzgruppen

SS paramilitary death squads in Nazi Germany

Nuremberg Laws

Racist laws enacted in Nazi Germany for the systematic persecution of Jews

Nuremberg Trials

Help open to the public to prosecute powerful figures for atrocities commited during WWI