Holocaust Vocabulary Test Crossword
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1) Legal removal of the civil rights of the Jews which outlawed marriage between Jews and non-Jews, forbade Jews from employing German females of child-bearing age, and prohibited Jews from displaying the German flag.3) The process of people being involuntarily moved from their homes because of war, government policies, or other social actions.4) The commanding officer of a military organization.5) The 49 nations who fought against Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II; primarily the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union.7) Secret order issued by Hitler to seize “persons endangering German security” who were to vanish without a trace into the fog and night.9) Jews who worked inside the death camps.10) Nazi euphemism for the deliberate killing of institutionalized physically, mentally, and emotionally handicapped people.12) Meeting where Nazi officials decided that complete annihilation of European Jews was the only rational measure to the Jewish question.16) Systematic prejudice against Jews.18) Members of Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party which was based on hate, prejudice, and rule by threat of violence.21) A section of the city where displaced Jews were forced to live characterized by overcrowding, starvation, and forced labor. |
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2) A concentration camp in Germany; primarily a work camp, and not an extermination camp, though thousands died there from exposure, over-work, and exhaustion.6) Doctor at Auschwitz who conducted cruel medical experiments on prisoners, especially on twins.8) Concentration and extermination camp in Poland.11) The destruction of 6 million Jews by Nazis, literally means “a completely burned sacrifice”.13) When the Nazis took power in 1933, they established places for the imprisonment of “all enemies” of their regime.14) The German Nazi Secret State police.15) The process of becoming incorporated into mainstream society.17) German word for “empire”.19) Originally included Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan, later joined by Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, and Slovakia.20) "Master race" of people of Northern European descent.22) "Lightening War" used to describe the speed, efficiency, and intensity of Germany's military attack on their opponents.23) “Underground” organizations working to help the Jews against Hitler/Nazi Germany.24) The code name for the plan to destroy all of Europe’s Jews.25) The deliberate and systematic destruction of a religious, racial, national, or cultural group. |
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