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Flashcards by Marwah Gul, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Marwah Gul
about 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Aryan: | Blond, Blue-eyed Germans and Mentally/ Physically Fit |
| Volk: | The peoples community ie. the people |
| Fuhrer: | Leader or Guide |
| Fatherland: | Germany |
| SS: Schutzstaffel: | Protection Squad- the main group that was used to terrorise and intimidate the German people |
| Dictatorship: | A form of government where the leader has absolute control. |
| Police State: | the police had absolute power to arrest |
| Propaganda: | Information that is spread to promote some cause |
| Concentration Camp: | special prisons where people are sent to do forced labour |
| Hard Labour: | Physically demanding work |
| Forced Instruction: | Being told what to think |
| Death's Head Units: | A section of the SS that ran the Concentration camps |
| Gestapo: | The states secret police |
| Informers: | The people who spied on their neighbours |
| Block Warden: | A person who was in charge of a town or block |
| Ministry of Propaganda: | The place that controlled all the media in Germany |
| Rallies: | Large gatherings of people |
| Coup d'etat: | Killing or imprisoning the leader and replacing that person with a new leader |
| Underground Resistance: | People who were secretly fighting and sabotaging things |
| Passive Resistance: | not co-operating with the people in charge |
| Reich Church: | The Church set up by the Nazi Party |
| Assassination: | The murder of an important person |
| Edelweiss Pirates: | Group of young people ho opposed the Nazi Party |
| The White Rose Group: | Young People who opposed the Nazi Party |
| Reluctance: | Not willing to get involved |
| Oppose: | To be against something or someone |
| Master Race: | A race that considers itself superior to all others and fitted to rule others |
| Social Darwinism: | A theory that the laws of evolution by natural selection also apply to social structures |
| Persecute: | Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another group |
| Undesirable: | Not wanted/ One whose presence is undesirable |
| Anti-Semitism: | Hatred of Jews |
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