Holocaust Vocabulary Part 1
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HOLOCAUST VOCABULARY PART 1
MacCarthy
Racism
Hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
Intolerance
The unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect contrary opinions or beliefs, persons of different races or backgrounds, etc.
Stereotype
A simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group
Bigotry
intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself.
Bullying
Use superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants.
Anti Semitism
Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group
Aryan
Used in Nazism to designate a supposed master race of non-Jewish Caucasians usually having Nordic features
Scapegoat
The one or group who takes the blame for others
Propaganda
Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
Hitler Youth
Program by the Nazis to
spread ideals to the youth of Germany
Genocide
The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
Ethnic Cleansing
The mass expulsion or killing of members of an ethnic or religious group in a society.
Cataclysm A terrible event causing great suffering to a
large group of people is a cataclysm. It usually affects a large area and all the people therein. It may cause great changes in the existing order of things. Destructive wars, violent revolutions, floods, earthquakes, etc., are examples of cataclysms
Two types of Cataclysm
Human-Caused by man: War, the Holocaust, September 11th.
Nature-Caused by nature: Earthquake, Hurricane, Tornado.
Gestapo
The German secret police under
Nazi rule. It ruthlessly suppressed opposition to the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe and sent Jews and others to concentration camps
SS (Schutzstaffel)
Special police force in Nazi
Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps
Nuremberg Laws
A series of Nazi anti-Semitic
laws passed on September 15th, 1935. These laws defined Jews, excluded Jews from German society, and removed all their civil rights
Bystander
A person who is present
at an event or incident but does not take part
Gentile
A person who is not Jewish
Brown Shirts A member of any fascist
party or group
Nazi, storm trooper
Ghetto
A quarter of a city in which Jews were required to live so that the Nazis could control and contain them.
Judenrat
Council of Jewish "elders" established on Nazi orders in an occupied area
Refugee A person who has been
forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster
Occupation
Invasion, conquest, and control of a nation or territory by foreign armed forces
Dehumanization To deprive of human
qualities such as individuality, compassion, or civility
Perpetrator
To be responsible for; commit a crime
Final Solution The Nazi program of
exterminating Jews during the Third Reich.