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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.
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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”
3. Final Solution • The term used by Nazis to mean the mass physical extermination of the Jews
4. Genocide • The killing of a whole people or nation
5. Gestapo • The German security police
6. S.S. • The security organization of the National Socialist German Workers Party
7. Prejudice • A judgment or opinion formed before the facts are known
8. Discrimination • The unjust or prejudicial treatment of a group of people (actions)
9. Scapegoat • A person, group, or thing that bears the blame for the mistakes or crimes of others
9. Third Reich • Hitler’s administration in Germany
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
11. Ghettos Sections of to14towns or cities that the German occupation authorities and their allies used to concentrate, exploit, and starve regional Jewish populations.
12. Lodz Ghetto • Pronounced (lo sch) • The first major ghetto, with 164,000 Jews • Established in Poland on May 1,1940
13. Ration • a fixed amount of a goods officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime.
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
15. antisemitism • Prejudiice or discrimination against Jews.
16. stereotypes • An oversimplified generalization about a person or group of people without regard for individual differences.
17. propaganda • False or partly false information used by a government or political party intended to sway the opinions of a population
18. Religious Terms Cabbala • Jewish mysticism • An approach to Bible study that analyzes hidden meanings in the text Torah and Talmud • Sacred Jewish texts