Night Terms to Know - English II Honors

The Holocaust

*-Mass murder of almost one-third of the world’s Jews*

*-Greek for complete destruction by fire*

*-The ultimate act of antisemitism*

The Gestapo

*-German abbreviation for secret state police*

*-Nazi Germany’s main tool of oppression and destruction*

*-Placed above the law in Germany in 1939*

SS men/officers

*-Initially Hitler’s personal bodyguards*

*-Later became one of the most powerful and feared*

*-organizations in all of Nazi Germany*

Nuremberg Laws

*-Anti Jewish statues enacted on September 15, 1935*

*Deprived Jews of German Citizenship*

*-Prohibited non-Jewish Germans from Marrying jews*

*-Outlawed sexual relations between Jews and Germans*

*-Other restrictions that eliminated any mixing/association between the “superior race” and the Jews*

Yellow Star

*-Jews were forced to wear this badge as a form of identification*

*-Enforced beginning in 1941*

Ghettos

*Enclosed districts that isolated Jews from the non-Jewish population and other Jewish communities*

The Final Solution

*The Nazi regime’s end goal: to exterminate the Jewish population through mass killings*

Auschwitz

*The largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers*

Dr. Josef Mengele

*-“The angel of death”*

*-SS doctor at Auschwitz and other camps*

*-He conducted inhumane experiments on prisoners*

Anti-semitism

*Hostility or prejudice against Jewish people*