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- Hermann Goring
- a German politician and military leader, a leading member of the Nazi Party, second in command of the Third Reich, designated successor to Adolf Hitler, and commander of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force). told Reinhard Heydrich to set up the conference Wansee: final solution- found guilty on all four counts of the Nuremberg Trial
- Nuremberg Laws
- denaturalization laws passed in Nazi Germany. Reich Citizenship Law= deprived German Jews of their citizenship and all pertinent, related rights.
- Kristallnacht
- when Jewish homes along with 8,000 Jewish shops were ransacked in numerous German cities, towns and villages
- Night and Fog decree
- a directive of Adolf Hitler on December 7, 1941 signed and implemented by Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Wilhelm Keitel, resulting in kidnapping and disappearance of many political activists throughout Nazi Germany's occupied territories.
- Jewish Special Detachments
- fighting group that rebelled at Birenau
- Nazi
- The group under Hitler; ideology under Hitler
- Adolf Hitler
- the leader of Nazi's, also known as Fuher
- Heinrich Himmler
- second most powerful leader in Nazi after displacement of Himmler. He oversaw all police and security forces including the Gestapo.
- White Rose Group
- popular Jewish fighting group
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- spring/summer 1942, Jewish fighting groups fought Germans, took 4 weeks to end
- Spiritual Resistance
- attemps to preserve Jewish history and traditions
- ZOB
- Jewish Fighting Organization
- Third Reich
- when the Nazi Germany is perceived as a depreciative expression to denominate this period
- SA
- functioned as a paramilitary organization of the German Nazi party. Played a major part in Hitler's rising power.
- Josef Mengele
- German SS officer and a physician in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Judenrate
- administrative bodies that the Germans required Jews to form in each ghetto in General Government
- SS
- a major Nazi military organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
- Jewish Council
- the government the Jews made for the ghettos
- Armee Juive
- Jewish Army (translated
- Law for the protection of German Blood and Honor
- laws passed out saying that no citizen of German can marry a Jew. Germans had to keep their blood pure
- Treblinka & Sobibor
- 2 other killing centers that had rebolts
- Ghetto
- section of a city occupied by a group who live there, especially because of social, economic, or legal pressure
- deportation
- expulsion of someone from a place
- Mordechai Anielewicz
- led the Warsaw Uprising
- Gestapo
- the official secret police of Nazi Germany
- Josef Goebbels
- a German politician and Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the Nazi regime "the whole function of education is to create Nazis"
- totalitarianism
- state regulation of nearly every aspect of public and private behavior
- Reinhard Heydrich
- an SS-Obergruppenführer, chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, SD and Kripo Nazi police agencies) and Reichsprotektor (Reich Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia.
- Adolf Eichmann
- the architect of the Holocaust. He managed the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps