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- Einsatzgruppen
- German for "mobile death squads".
- Anti-Semitism
- its an idea based on biological and racial thinking of the late 19th and 20th Century
- Crystal Night
- Name for the violent pogroms,or terror attacks, carried out on Nov. 9-10
- Gestapo
- the Nazis established the Gestapo to be the Secret State Police
- Hindenburg, Paul von
- Leader of the German millitary in World War 1
- Resistance
- "Underground" groups working against the Nazis throughout Europe
- Versailles Treaty
- at the end of world war 1 in Versailies, the triumphant Allies concluded the terms of a peace treaty that did more ill to Germany than it did to help Germany
- Hitler, Adolf
- leader and chancellor of the Third Reich from 1933 until his death in 1945
- Reichstag
- Parliment
- Aryan
- its a radical doctrine to emphasixe the myth of Nordic
- Mein Kampf
- German for My Struggle
- Hess, Rudolf
- Early supporter and confidant of Hitler
- Nazi
- Acronym for the National Socialist German Workers party
- Holocaust
- A term devised in the late 1950s to describe the Nazis' plans to rid the world of Jews
- Concentration Camps
- a group of labor and death camps located in Germany
- Wannsee Confrance
- a meeting that mapped out the final solution
- Final Solution
- this is the order to exterminate all Jews in Europe
- Heydrich, Reinhard
- head of the Reich Security Service and administrator of the concentration camps.
- Auschwitz
- Notorious death camp in poland
- Crematorium
- a furnace installed and used in the death camps
- Zyklon-B
- poison gas used in the gas chambers of death camps
- pogrom
- an organized, state-sponsored
- Eichmann, Adolf
- Chief of the central Reich Security Office, he was charged with the responsibility for organizing the destruction of millions of European jews
- Goebbels, Joseph
- the Nazi party's chief of the department of propoganda
- Sonderkommandos
- Jewish prisoners in the death camps assigned to deal with the corpses
- Genocide
- this is the deliberate and systematic policy aimed at destroying an entire racial, political, religious, or cultural group of people
- Streicher, Julius
- Brutal, sadistic editor of the militant, and anti-semitic newspaper
- Hoess, Rudolf
- Commandant of Auschwitz
- Nuremberg Trials
- An international military tribunal
- Lebensraum
- german for "living space"
- Himmler, Heinrich
- leader of the Gestapo
- Third Reich
- the third Empire
- Goering, Hermann
- he was the number two Nazi
- Swastika
- called hakenkreuz in german, and ancient symbol used in India to wart off evil spirits
- Nuremberg Laws
- Enacted in 1935
- Ghetto
- a medival system that began in italy and was revived and advanced by the Nazis