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Holocaust Vocabulary # 2

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the German parliament
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Nazi party leader, 1919-1945. German Chancellor, 1933-1945. Called Führer, or supreme leader, by the Nazis
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secret state police; Prior to the outbreak of war, the gestapo used brutal methods to investigate and suppress resistance to Nazi rule within Germany. After 1939, they expanded their operations into Nazi-occupied Europe.
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the peace treaty that officially ended World War I between Germany and the allies; It placed all the blame on Germany.
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to totally destroy; to make extinct
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Hitler's ideal was to create a "superior" race of only Aryan descent. He wanted to do this by eliminating "sub-humans," such as Jews, Gypsies, enemies of the state, and handicapped or unproductive people.
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German for "Night of Broken Glass"; A mass pogrom of Nazi violence against Jews and their stores and synagogues in November 1938. There was intense looting and destruction of property, and 35,000 Jewish men were sent to labor or concentration camps. Many were subsequently released. Thirty-five people were killed.
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Nazi extermination centers where Jews and other victims were brought to be killed as part of Hitler's Final Solution
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control of a country by a foreign military power
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the "third empire" of Germany; It was the Nazi name for Germany, declared by Hitler, and was used from January 1933 to April 1945.
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a predominantly Jewish area in the capital of Poland; In 1940, it was enclosed and walled in, and eventually confined nearly 500,000 Jews. Starvation, disease, unsanitary conditions, and shootings led to the deaths of 45,000 individuals in 1941.
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the German fascist party controlling Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler
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the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, cultural, or religious group
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a concentration camp in northern Germany; Epidemics, overcrowding, and planned starvation in this camp led to the deaths of more than 34,168 people, including Anne and Margot Frank
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ill-treatment or hostility often due to race or political or religious beliefs