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Vocabulary #3

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Killing Centers   camps maintained to systematically kill Jews  
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Krakow (or Cracow)   the architectural gem of a city in southern Poland where Schindler lived between 1939 and 1944.  
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Kristallnacht (Crystal Night)   The Night of Broken Glass; the night Nazi police and collaborators subjected Jews to an onslaught of anti-Semitic violence  
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Nazism   the political doctrine of the Nazi party which advocated anti-Semitism, racism, militarism, one-party rule, anticommunism, and a rigid authoritarian dictatorship  
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Nazi Party (NSDAP, or National Socialist German Workers= Party)   political party of Hitler  
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Nuremberg Trials   trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by former military opponents of Germany after WWII.  
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Occupied Territories   those nations overrun and occupied by the Nazi government  
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Peer pressure   social pressure to conform to the beliefs and behaviors exerted by those people of about the same age, status, etc.  
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Perpetrators   in the Holocaust, those persons, agencies, or governments who assist in or gain from the persecution of others  
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Prejudice   a negative, inflexible attitude toward a group impervious to evidence or contrary argument, founded on suspicions, ignorance, and irrational hatred  
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Plaszow   a forced labor camp in a Krakow suburb on the site of two Jewish cemeteries  
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Racism   the belief that a racial group is inferior because of biological or cultural traits  
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Resettlement   deportation of Jews to killing centers in Poland  
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Resistance   acts of rebellion, sabotage, and attempts to escape committed by individuals and groups within the concentration camps and ghettos  
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Rescuers   those who helped rescue Jews without regard to personal consequences  
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Righteous Gentile   those Gentiles honored by the state of Israel for their efforts to rescue Jews during the Nazi occupation of Europe  
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Scapegoat   a person, group, or thing that bears the blame for the mistakes or crimes of others  
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Emilie Schindler   Oskar Schindler=s wife  
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SS (Schutzstaffel)   the elite force of the Nazi party whose troops were ideologically indoctrinated and viewed the Jews, and other=s they believed to be sub-human, as worthy of only extermination  
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Stereotyping   attributing to a group a quality or trait possessed by only part of the group  
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Treblinka   a killing center near Warsaw; the graveyard of Warsaw Jewry  
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Wannsee Conference   a meeting of the Nazi bureaucracy and military to coordinate the role of various government agencies in the extermination of the Jews  
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Zegota   a small, unique organization clandestinely established in Nazi-occupied Poland for the purpose of rescuing Jews  
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Zyklon B   hydrogen cyanide, the pesticide used in crystalline form in the gas chambers of the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek killing centers  
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