This document defines key terms related to the Holocaust. It provides definitions for terms like Appelplatz (roll call in camps), Boycott (refusing business with Jews), Konzentrationslager (concentration camp), Genocide (murder of an ethnic group by Nazis against Jews), and Pogroms (riots against Jews). It also defines collaboration, dehumanization, Fascism, Fuhrer (German word for leader used by Hitler), scrip, kapos, musselman, deported, tyranny, emaciated, liquidation, sadistic, truncheon, anti-semitism, partisans, The Final Solution, Nuremburg Laws, Gestapo, Nap

1. Dictionary of the Holocaust

2. Appelplatz
This was the roll call in the concentration camps

3. Boycott
To refuse to buy. The Nazis boycotted Jewish businesses and kept Germans from
doing any business with the Jewish.

4. Konzentrationslager
Concentration camp

5. Genocide
To purposely murder a specific ethnic or religious group. The Nazis obviously did
this toward the Jewish people.

6. Pogroms
A Yiddish term meaning, devastation. These happened to be riots against the Jews
as rumors spread.

7. Collaborate
Help or cooperate with the enemy.

8. Dehumanization
The process of discriminating against a specific group of people to make them feel
like dirt. The Nazis denied the Jews basic civil rights through this policy.

9. !!!!!!
We are going to tax
people whenever
they walk into stores
just to look around…
if you buy
something, we will
give you your money
back. We need
money!!!
Fascism
It is a social view that the nation’s or state’s well being is more important than a
personal/individual well being.

10. Fuhrer
It is German for “leader”. Adolf Hitler adopted this as his title.

11. Scrip
Paper currency or tokens used as evidence that the bearer was entitled to receive
something in return.

12. Kapos
These were the Jews working in the death camps. They wore black and white
armbands. They would do the dirty labor of shaving heads and burning the
dead bodies.

13. Musselman
This was a term used to describe the ones in the camp that gave up fighting to
live.

14. Deported
Forcibly sent away (concentration camps)

15. Tyranny
The Nazis were unjustly using their power… they ruled beyond what should be
allowed.

16. Emaciated
To be extremely thin from illness o starvation. (Jews)

17. Liquidation
The removal of all Jews through a mass murder.

18. Sadistic
Gratification gained through causing pain or degradation to others; enjoyment
from being extremely cruel

19. Truncheon
This was a large stick/club most likely used by the Kapos or Gestapo to punish or
herd together Jews.

20. Anti-semitism
This was the discrimination against Jews

21. Partisans
They operated secretly in their efforts to assist Jews and others persecuted by the
Nazis.

22. The Final Solution
This was the Nazi’s plan to get rid of all Jews. 

23. Nuremburg Laws
These were the laws that deprived the Jewish people of all their civil rights.

24. Gestapo
This was the Nazi Secret State Police.

25. Napolas
Elite schools for training the future government and military leadership of the Nazi
state

26. NAZIS
Other
nations
Protectorate
This is a state or nation partially or completely controlled over a stronger one.

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