Module Six Lesson Three Assignment Two

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  • Hitler’s Mein Kampf

    Hitler’s Mein Kampf
    This represented that an extreme German nationalism, strong anti-Semitism, and anticommunism are linked together by a Social Darwinian theory of struggle. It helped emphasize the right of superior nations to lebensraum through expansion.
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  • Passage of the Nuremberg Laws

    Passage of the Nuremberg Laws
    It was an Anti-Semitic law against Jews, originated by the Nazi Government in 1935. It was based on the belief of scientific racism. Separate Jews from Germans and it deprived Jews of German citizenship.
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  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    A time when Nazis conducted a series of riots on the Jewish people in Germany and Austria. Burned synagogues, destroyed and vandalized businesses, and they arrested 30,000 Jewish men who were sent to concentration camps.
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  • The Yellow Star of David

    The Yellow Star of David
    The six-pointed Star of David made of yellow cloth and sewn to the clothing of European Jews so Nazis could easily identify them. Jews were forced to wear Star of David that symbolized Jewish faith.
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  • Jewish Ghettoization

    Jewish Ghettoization
    Section of the city inhabited only by Jews. An area where Nazis forced all Jews to relocate to.
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  • Extermination Camps

    Extermination Camps
    The German extermination camps or death camps were designed and built by Nazi Germany during World War II (1939–45) to systematically kill millions of Jews and Communists. Link text

  • The Final Solution

    The Final Solution
    The 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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  • Liberation

    Liberation
    Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland.
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  • Transportation to and conditions in the Concentration Camps

    Transportation to and conditions in the Concentration Camps
    A guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc. Especially any of the camps established by the Nazis prior to and during World War II for the confinement and persecution of prisoners. Link text

  • The Nuremberg Trials

    The Nuremberg Trials
    After World War II, participants in the Holocaust were put on trial for crimes against humanity.
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