Clues to the Holocaust Crossword:

ACROSS:

• 4 - an extremely wicked, brutal or cruel act, object or situation (plural)
• 6 - a prolonged and disturbed concern with an unreasonable thought, emotion or impulse
• 7 - act of showing partiality based upon the group or class to which the person belongs, rather than according to merit
• 9 - meeting especially in challenge; opposition; a bringing face-to-face
• 11 - utter destruction; annihilation
• 15 - act or practice of harassing in a manner to injure, suffer or afflict
• 16 - fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is unfamiliar

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• 1 - a test; a tentative procedure or policy; an operation carried out under controlled conditions
• 2 - opposition to withstand the force or effect; an act of exerting oneself to oppose
• 3 - deliberate cheating or misleading; imposition of a false idea or belief
• 5 - cooperation with or assistance to an enemy force occupying one's country
• 8 - a Jewish congregation, house of worship or communal center
• 10 - act of holding or keeping in as if in custody: confinement; state of restraining
• 12 - use of force short of war in retaliation; the getting even
• 13 - an irrational attitude of hostility against a person, group or race suggesting a feeling rooted in suspicion, fear or intolerance
• 14 - the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political or cultural group plants

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A: Adolf Hitler, agonize, air raid, alarm, Allies, ancestry, anti-Semitic, anxiety, appeal, appalling, arms, army, arrest, artillery, Aryan, atmosphere, attack, atrocity, authority, austere, Axis powers
B: ban, barbaric, battle, beatings, Belgium, Belsen, Birkenau, bitter, bomb, boxcars, bravery, brown-shirts, brutal, Buchenwald, burning
C: campaign, challenge, chamber, chant, civilian, cold, collaborator, command, commemorate, commitment, concentration camps, control, conditions, confrontation, conquer, conscience, corruption, courage, cramped, crime, cruelty
D: Dachau, dangerous, death camp, deception, declare, deed, degrade, denial, Denmark, deprivation, desire, despair, desperate, despise, detention, determination, destruction, dictatorship, disease, dismay, disparage, drama
E: elite, empire, enemy, escape, ethnic group, Europe, event, evidence, evil, execution, exhaustion, expel, experiment, exposure, extermination, extremist
F: factories, fanatic, fatherland, France, fear, fight, fire, firing squad, flee, flight, foul, frantic, freedom, fright, Führer (leader)
G: gas chamber, gassing, generals, generation, genocide, Germans, Gestapo, ghetto, glory, goal, government, guilt, gunfire, gypsies
H: harsh, hatred, headquarters, "Heil, Hitler", hideous, hiding, Hitler, hoodlum, honor, hope, horrible, horrific, horror, humanity, hunger, hunt
I: impediment, imprisonment, impose, incorrect, influence, inhumane, injuries, injustice, invade, invasion
J: jail, Jews, judgment, justice
K: kill
L: labor, lamentation, laws, "lebensraum" (living space), legacy, lesson, liberation, lies, loyalty
M: maim, marches, mass meetings, mass murder, massacre, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), medical experiments, millions, monstrous
N: nationalism, Nazi, Netherlands, network, Norway
O: obsession, opponent, order, orders, outlaw, outnumber, outrage, overrun, overthrow
P: pawn, perish, persecution, plot, poison, Poland, Poles, police, political party, political prisoner, population, possessions, power, prayer, pride, prison, proclamation, press, prohibit, propaganda, proud, purity, push back
Q: questioning, quick
R: race, rally, Reich, Reichstag (parliament), rejection, relocation, remembrance, renounce, reprisal, resilience, resistance, restriction, retaliation, retreat, revenge, Rhineland, rights, risk, route
S: safety, scheme, Schutzstaffel (SS), secrecy, security, seize, sewage, shelter, shock, shootings, siren, slave labor, slaughter, slogan, spying, soldier, sorrow, squad, Stalin, steal, storm troopers, strangle, strict, struggle, suffering, supplies, supreme, surrender, suspect, sympathy, synagogue, swastika
T: take-over, tank, tarnish, tattoo, temperature, tension, territory, thousands, torture, tough, trial, transportation, treaty
U: unarmed, unforgettable, uniforms, unions, universal, unstable
V: valor, verdict, Versailles Treaty, vicious, victim, victory, viewpoint, violation, vision, vitriolic
W: wail, warning, weaken, weapon, widespread, wipe out, World War II, wound, wrong, worry
X:
Y: youth organization
Z: zeal, zealous
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Interactive grade level puzzles: ["S139 Level 1"] -- ["S139 Level 2"] -- ["S139 Level 3"]
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Definition MATCH: ["S139Level 1-Match"] -- ["S139Level 2-Match"] -- ["S139Level 3-Match"]
Crosswords: ["S139Level 1 C/W"] -- ["S139Level 2 C/W"] -- ["S139Level 3 C/W"]
Find the Words: ["S139Level 1 WF"] -- ["S139Level 2 WF"] -- ["S139Level 3 WF"]
Is It True or False?: ["S139Level 1 T/F"] -- ["S139Level 2 T/F"] -- ["S139Level 3 T/F"]
Synonym/Antonym Encounters: ["S139Level 1-Syn/Ant"] -- ["S139Level 2-Syn/Ant"] -- ["S139Level 3-Syn/Ant"]
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