Final Solution

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Wannsee Conference
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1942 conference in Germany concerning the plan to murder European Jews
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Anti-Semitism
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A mindset that people of Jewish heritage were inferior to other races
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Aryan Society
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priests and teachers[highest position],kings and other rulers and warriors took the next position, artisans traders and merchants held the next position, sudras[the lowest position
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Euphemistic language
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the use of socially acceptable terms and phrases in place of blunt descriptive ones.
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Final solution
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Final solution of the Jewish question-murder of every single Jew-had begun-mass arresting, and trafficking of Jews to the concentration camps-mass killings occurred as well in the gas chambers
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genocide
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Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
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Kristallnacht
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"Night of Broken Glass"
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Nuremburg laws
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1935 laws defining the status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood
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European Jewry
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Over 9.5 million European Jews in pre-world war 2 period. By 1948, there was an estimated 3.7 million Jews remaining in Europe.
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Ghettos
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Sections of towns and cities in which Jews were forced to live.
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mobile gas van
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a special product of the Third Reich, it is a van with a gas-tight cabin/container-box/superstructure mounted on its chassis/understructure used to kill people by the motor-exhausts led into that cabin
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Heinrich Himmler
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German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews (1900-1945)
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Operation Reinhard
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nickname for murder of all Jews in Poland
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Belzec
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Nazi killing center located in eastern Poland. It opened in March 1942 and closed in December 1942. More than 600,000 persons, overwhelmingly Jews,, were murdered there, initially in gas vans and later in gas chambers.
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Sobibar
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Extermination camp, which closed one day due to jewsh prisoner rebellion.
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Treblinka
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Death camp in Poland. 850,000 Jews were murdered in gas chambers in just one year. In 1943 the camp was blown up by an uprising of the remaining 600 prisoners, all but 40 died.
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Auschwitz
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Nazi extermination camp in Poland, the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and others were killed there.
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Zyklon B
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A pesticide used as poison gas to murder Jews in the death camp gas chambers.
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Holocaust
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A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.