Holocaust Vocabulary

The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, cultural, or religious group

• Genocide

• Aryan

• Fuhrer

• Anschluss

a facility for the imprisonment of minorities/political opponents; used for confinement

• gestapo

• concentration camps

• synagogue

• gas chamber

areas that are thickly populated with people of the same ethnic/minority group (ex: Warsaw, Poland)

• gas chamber

• synagogue

• concentration camps

• ghettos

a branch of the Nazi regime dedicated to young people

• Gestapo

• Hitler Youth

• Aryan

• Nazi Party

the German secret police

• Aryan

• swastika

• gestapo

• synagogue

Hitler's "master race"; purely German

• Aryan

• Gestapo

• Synagogue

• Third Reich

this document defined "Jew" and deprived all Jewish people of their civil rights

• Star of David

• Nuremburg Laws

• Concentration Camp

• Gestapo

Adolf Hitler's title in Germany; meaning "leader"

• swastika

• lebensraum

• fuhrer

• fascism

Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich

• Anschluss

• Lebensraum

• Death March

• Final Solution

Hitler's plan to reunify the Germanic people

• Lebensraum

• Anschluss

• Final Solution

• Synagogue