https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk Make a copy of this Padlet. For each vocabulary word, include a definition and appropriate illustration. en-us 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC 2025-04-13 16:07:23 UTC hello@padlet.com 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901414 Definition: Prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews. Antisemitism was not new to Nazi Germany or Europe; feelings of hatred and distrust of Jews had existed there for centuries.

]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901414 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901416 Definition: “Aryan” was used originally to identify peoples speaking the languages of Europe and India. The Nazis changed it to mean “superior race,” described as white, tall, athletic, with blond hair and blue eyes.]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901416 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901418 Definition:  One who is present at an event or who knows about its occurrence and chooses to ignore it. That is, he or she neither participates in, nor responds to it.

]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901418 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901419 Definition:  Furnaces constructed to burn human remains in the killing centers and concentration camps. The Germans had accepted bids for the construction of crematoria; many were built by German companies.]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901419 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901421 Definition: Intended to change the manner in which a person or group of people are perceived. Dehumanization reduces the target group to objects therefore no longer human and worthy of human]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901421 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901424 Definition: Euphemism adopted at Wansee Conference (January 1942), refers to “the final solution to the Jewish question in Europe.” This was the Nazi code for the murder of all European Jews.

]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901424 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901427 Definition:German word for "leader," it was adopted by Adolf Hitler as his title after Hindenburg’s death.]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901427 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901428 Definition: The deliberate, systematic annihilation of a racial, religious, cultural, or political group of people.]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901428 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901430 Definition: The secret state police of the German army, organized to stamp out any political opposition.]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901430 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901431 Definition: Nazis revived the medieval 16th-century term “ghetto” to describe compulsory “Jewish quarters” in the poorest sections of the cities and towns they had conquered. Ghettos were closed off by walls, or fences made of wood and barbed wire. Entire families were imprisoned in ghettos, including young children and the elderly. Ghettos were extremely crowded and unsanitary. Lack of food, clothing, medicine, and other supplies, severe winter weather, and the absence of adequate municipal services led to repeated outbreaks of epidemics and to very high mortality rates. ]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901431 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901433 Definition: Also referred to as the “Night of Broken Glass,” this pogrom occurred on Nov. 9-10, 1938 in Germany and Austria against hundreds of synagogues, Jewish-owned businesses, homes and Jews themselves. This so-called “spontaneous demonstration” was in reaction to the assassination of a German official by a Jewish student whose parents had been deported to the Polish border.]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901433 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901434 Definition:The discovery of the camps by Allied forces who stumbled upon them while pursuing the German army. After liberation many thousands of camp inmates perished because they were too weak to live. ]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901434 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901435 Definition:Name for members of the NSDAP, National Socialist Democratic Workers Party, who believed in the idea of Aryan supremacy.]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901435 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901437 Definition:Racial laws put into effect by the German parliament in Nuremberg on September 15, 1935. These laws became the basis for racist anti-Jewish policies and the legal exclusion of Jews from German life. One of the first Nuremberg Laws declared that only Aryans could be citizens of Germany. Jewish families who had lived in Germany for 400 or more years suddenly had no legal rights or protection. Similar anti-Jewish laws were imposed upon every nation occupied by the German army.

]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901437 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901439 Definition False or partly-false information used by a government or political party to sway the opinions of the population. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda and a master of the manipulation of truth, used books, film, newspapers, and radio to further notions of racial superiority and the persecution of Jews.

]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901439 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901440 Definition: An ancient Eastern symbol adopted by the Nazis as their emblem.

]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901440 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901441 Definition A government or doctrine in which one political party or political group maintains complete control of a population even to the intimate, private details of an individual’s life such as one’s friendships.

]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901441 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901442 Definition: Camps in which Jews were imprisoned by the Nazis, located in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. There were three different kinds of camps: transit, labor and extermination. Many prisoners in concentration camps died within months of arriving from violence or starvation.]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901442 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901444 Definition: The act of being forced to leave where one is living. The Nazis coerced, tricked, and forced prisoners to leave their homes or ghettos, and board cattle cars destined for concentration camps and/or death camps. Prisoners in the overcrowded, unsanitary, cattle cars were given no food or water during the 2-4 day ride to the camps and many died.

]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901444 1003042 https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901445 The mass slaughter and systematic torture/murder of approximately six million European Jews and millions of other "undesirables" by the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945.]]> 2019-02-25 15:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1003042/i4v2ewsf22yk/wish/334901445