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Holocaust Vocabulary. Please take notes in the Literature section of your binder. 1. holocaust. Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, caused by fire or nuclear war. 2. Aryan. The Nazi term that meant a “superior Caucasian Gentile”. Superior?. 3. Final Solution. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Holocaust Vocabulary
Please take notes in the Literature section of your
binder.
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1. holocaust
• Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, caused by fire or nuclear war
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2. Aryan
• The Nazi term that meant a “superior Caucasian Gentile”
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Superior?
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3. Final Solution
• The term used by Nazis to mean the mass physical extermination of the Jews
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4. Genocide
• The killing of a whole people or nation
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5. Gestapo
• The German security police
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6. S.S.
• The security organization of the National Socialist German Workers Party
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7. Prejudice
• A judgment or opinion formed before the facts are known
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8. Discrimination
• The unjust or prejudicial treatment of a group of people (actions)
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9. Scapegoat
• A person, group, or thing that bears the blame for the mistakes or crimes of others
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9. Third Reich
• Hitler’s administration in Germany
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10. Auschwitz
• A city in southwestern Poland where there was an infamous extermination camp
• http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_nm.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005189&MediaId=3371
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11. Ghettos
Sections of to14towns or cities that the German occupation authorities and their allies used to concentrate, exploit, and starve regional Jewish populations.
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12. Lodz Ghetto
• Pronounced (lo sch) • The first major ghetto, with 164,000 Jews
• Established in Poland on May 1,1940
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13. Ration
• a fixed amount of a goods officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime.
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14. Fascism
• A social and political ideology • A system of government with a centralized authority under a dictator
• Suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship
• The state or nation is the highest priority
• Personal/Individual freedoms often limited
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15. antisemitism
• Prejudiice or discrimination against Jews.
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16. stereotypes
• An oversimplified generalization about a person or group of people without regard for individual differences.
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17. propaganda
• False or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to sway the opinions of a population
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18. Religious Terms
Cabbala• Jewish mysticism• An approach to Bible study that analyzes hidden meanings in the text
Torah and Talmud• Sacred Jewish texts