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Project Educate Yourself

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  • Home
  • The Rise of Hitler
  • About- The Rise of Hitler
  • The Isolation Of Jews
  • Concentration Camps
  • Experimentation
  • Targeted Groups
  • Attack On The Disabled
  • Olympics During Hitler
  • Death Marches
  • Liberation
  • The Trials
  • Important Stories
  • Important Words
  • About Creator
  • Contact
  • Donate

Important Words

Here is a compiled list of words mentioned and used throughout this website and their definitions

Important Words

Book Burning

 destruction of writing or pictures regarded as politically or socially harmful or subversive or produced by persons whose ideas or acts are so regarded 

Propaganda

the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person

 ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause

Chancellor

 the secretary of a nobleman, prince, or king 


 the chief minister of state in some European countries 

Concentration Camps

 a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard— used especially in reference to camps created by the Nazis in World War II for the internment and persecution of Jews and other prisoners 

Dachau

 city in the southern Germany state of Bavaria population 35,892 

Extremist

the quality or state of being extreme

advocacy of extreme measures or views : RADICALISM

Dictator

one holding complete autocratic control : a person with unlimited governmental power


one ruling in an absolute and often oppressive way

Totalitarian

of or relating to a political regime based on subordination of the individual to the state and strict control of all aspects of the life and productive capacity of the nation especially by coercive measures (such as censorship and terrorism) 

Regime

  mode of rule or management

 a form of government

        a socialist regime

 a government in power

 a period of rule

Censoring

an official who examines materials (such as publications or films) for objectionable matter 


an official (as in time of war) who reads communications (such as letters) and deletes material considered sensitive or harmful 

Master Race

 a people held to be racially preeminent and hence fitted to rule or enslave other peoples 

Sterilization

 a procedure by which a living organism is made incapable of reproduction 


 to deprive of the power of reproducing through surgery 

Isolation

the action of isolating : the condition of being isolated 

Star of David

 a hexagram used as a symbol of Judaism 

Synagogue

 a Jewish congregation 


 the house of worship and communal center of a Jewish congregation 

Nazi

 a member of a German fascist party controlling Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler 


 one who espouses the beliefs and policies of the German Nazis : FASCIST


one who is likened to a German Nazi : a harshly domineering, dictatorial, or intolerant person

Brainwashed

 a forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up basic political, social, or religious beliefs and attitudes and to accept contrasting regimented ideas 


 persuasion by propaganda or salesmanship 

Auschwitz

commune in southern Poland west of Kraków population 40,000 

Genocide

the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group 

Gas Chamber

 a chamber in which prisoners are executed by poison gas 

Crematorium

 an establishment or structure in which the bodies of the dead are cremated 

Ghetto

 a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live 

Experimentation

 an operation or procedure carried out under controlled conditions in order to discover an unknown effect or law, to test or establish a hypothesis, or to illustrate a known law 

Tuberculosis

 a highly variable communicable disease of humans and some other vertebrates that is caused by the tubercle bacillus and rarely in the U.S. by a related mycobacterium (Mycobacterium bovis), that affects especially the lungs but may spread to other areas (such as the kidney or spinal column), and that is characterized by fever, cough, difficulty in breathing, formation of tubercles, caseation, pleural effusions, and fibrosis 

Human Rights

 rights (such as freedom from unlawful imprisonment, torture, and execution) regarded as belonging fundamentally to all persons 

Roma

 a member of a traditionally itinerant people who originated in northern India and now live chiefly in Europe and in smaller numbers throughout the world

 : ROMANI 

Progression

the action or process of progressing : ADVANCE


a continuous and connected series : SEQUENCE

Target

an object of ridicule or criticism


something or someone to be affected by an action or development

Death Marches

 a march (as of prisoners of war) in which those unable to go on are left to die as they fall 

Malnourished

 supplied with less than the minimum or an unbalanced amount of the nutrients or foods essential for sound health and growth

 : marked by malnutrition 

Liberation

 the act of liberating : the state of being liberated 


 a movement seeking equal rights and status for a group 

Buchenwald

 village in central Germany northwest of Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II 

Mass Grave

 an excavation for burial of a large amount of bodies 

Trial

 the formal examination before a competent tribunal of the matter in issue in a civil or criminal cause in order to determine such issue

 the action or process of trying or putting to the proof : TEST


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