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Anne Frank Vocabulary Holocaust - NAZI - Hitler's persecutions and murder of European Jews. Original meaning in Greek was "burnt sacrifice." Came to mean a huge fire that destroys everything in its path. National Socialist German Workers' Party (National Sozialische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei) Fascist political party led by Hitler. Racist, Anti- democratic, and nationalistic.

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Anne Frank VocabularyHolocaust-

NAZI -

Hitler's persecutions and murder of European Jews. Original meaning in Greek was "burnt sacrifice." Came to mean a huge fire that destroys everything in its path.

National Socialist German Workers' Party (National Sozialische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei) Fascist political party led by Hitler. Racist, Anti-democratic, and nationalistic.

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Fascism-

Third Reich - "Third Empire" Germany under Nazi control 1933-1945. Was supposed to last 1000 years. Hitler considered the Holy Roman Empire the first, Germany under Bismark's rule the second, his own the third.

A totalitarian system of government that controls economy, suppresses all opposition, promotes extreme nationalism. Political philosophy exalts nation and race above individual. Dictatorship and oppression.

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Genocide-

Anti-Semitism - Prejudice or hatred of Jews.

Deliberate, systematic murder and extermination of an entire racial or cultural group of people. Term coined after WWII to describe Hitler's war crimes against Jews.

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SA-(Sturmabteilung)

SS-(Schutzstaffel) A private army of elite, highly-trained Nazi guards. Black shirted security force. Had complete control of the Jews and concentration camps. Headed by Heinrich Himmler.

Brown shirted storm troopers. Hitler's private army of cutthroats and hoodlums. Helped bring Hitler to power in the 1930's. Headed by Ernst Roehm.

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Hitler Youth- (Hitler Jugend, Deutsches Jungvolk)

Gestapo - (geheime Staatspolizei) Secret police. A branch of the SS in charge of imprisoning all Nazi enemies, including Jews.

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Nazi organization for German boys 6-18. Meeting held Sunday mornings to deliberately conflict with church. Purpose to indoctrinate boys as good Nazis. Corresponding group for girls was League of German Maidens (Bund Deutcher Madel-BDM).

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Swastika-

Fuhrer -

“Leader.” Hitler’s title.

Symbol of the Nazi party.

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Survivor-

Arbeit Macht Frei - "Work will make you free." Famous sign at the entrance of Auschwitz. Example of Nazi deception and lies.

Someone, usually a Jew, who survived the Holocaust.

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Kristallnacht-

Bear Witness-

To tell what you experiences or saw.

"Night of Broken Glass." Nov. 9-10, 1938. First Nazi pogrom -- an organized and officially approved attack on a minority group.

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Ghetto-

Aryan- Nazi term for "German Race.” Supposedly pure and superior to all others. Actually no such race. Term is a name of an ancient language from which modern European and Mediterranean languages have evolved.

A part of a city where Jews were forced to live. Nazis first set up ghettos in cities in central occupied Poland.

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Blitzkrieg-

Final Solution- Nazi euphemism for the extermination of all European Jews. Nazi policy to kill all Jews.

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“Lightning War."A rapid, overwhelming attack. Hitler's very successful method of attack.