Holocaust and Nazi Germany Vocabulary

A set of practice flashcards defining key terminology associated with the Third Reich, World War II, and the Holocaust as presented in the lecture transcript.

Annex

1. A building added on to another building 2. When a country adds a territory

Anti-Semitism

Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people.

Aryan

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

Concentration Camp

A place the Nazi’s sent people they didn’t like

Discrimination

To treat people badly just because of their race or ethnicity

Fascism

A dictatorship in which the nation is prioritized over individuals 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’s forced the entire Jewish population of the surrounding area to live

Holocaust

The time in which the Germans killed $11+$ million people

Kristallnacht

The night when the Germans rioted and burned down a bunch of Jewish buildings

Lebensraum

“Living space” The Nazi beleif that the German people needed more territory in which to live comfortably

Nazi

Hitler’s political party

Pogrom

Organized acts of violence against Jewish communities

Prejudice

Judging people just by looking at them

Ration

To save or conserve something

Scapegoat

A person blamed for something they are not responsible for

Segregation

To seperate people

SS- Schutzstaffel

Nazi soldiers. The SS caried out the Holocaust

Stereotype

To judge someone based on knowledge of people like them

Reich (Third)

Nazi Germany (Third Empire)

Wehrmacht

The German army