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WordBank: 16 words: Atrocities, Collaboration, Confrontation, Deception, Detention, Discrimination, Experiment, Extermination, Genocide, Obsession, Persecution, Prejudice, Reprisal, Resistance, Synagogue, Xenophobia

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Alphalary for Holocaust (Wordlist)
A) Accuse, Adolf Hitler, Agonize, Air raid, Alarm, Allies, Ancestry, Anti-Semitic, Anxiety, Appalling, Appeal, Arms, Army, Arrest, Artillery, Aryan, Atmosphere, Atrocity, Attack, Austere, Authority, Axis powers, “Heil, “lebensraum” (living space)
B) Ban, Barbaric, Battle, Beatings, Belgium, Belsen, Birkenau, Bitter, Bomb, Boxcars, Bravery, Brown-shirts, Brutal, Brutality, Buchenwald, Burning
C) Campaign, Cattle-car, Challenge, Chamber, Chant, Charges, Civilian, Cold, Collaborator, Command, Commemorate, Commitment, Concentration camps, Conditions, Confiscation, Confrontation, Conquer, Conscience, Control, Convict, Corruption, Courage, Cramped, Crime, Cruelty
D) Dachau, Dangerous, Death camp, Deception, Declare, Deed, Degrade, Demoralize, Denial, Denmark, Deport, Deprivation, Desire, Despair, Desperate, Despicable, Despise, Destruction, Detention, Determination, Dictatorship, Disciplined, Disease, Dismay, Disparage, Displaced, Drama
E) Elite, Empire, Endure, Enemy, Escape, Ethnic group, Europe, Event, Evidence, Evil, Execution, Exhaustion, Expel, Experiment, Exposure, Extermination, Extremist
F) Factories, Families, Fanatic, Fatherland, Führer (leader), Fear, Fight, Fire, Firing squad, Flee, Flight, Forget, Foul, France, Frantic, Freedom, Fright
G) Gas chamber, Gassing, Gendarmerie, Generals, Generation, Genocide, Germans, Germany, Gestapo, Ghetto, Glory, Goal, Government, Guard. guilt, Gunfire, Gypsies
H) Harsh, Hatred, Headquarters, Hideous, Hiding, Hitler, Honor, Hoodlum, Hope, Horrible, Horrific, Horror, Humanity, Hunger, Hunted
I) Illegal, Impediment, Impose, Imprisonment, Incorrect, Infantry, Inflame, Influence, Inhumane, Injuries, Injustice, Interrogation, Intolerance, Invade, Invasion, Investigation
J) Jail, Jeer, Jews, Judgment, Justice
K) Keen, Killing, Kosher
L) Labor, Lamentation, Laws, Legacy, Lesson, Liberation, Lies, Losses, Loyalty
M) Maim, Marches, Mass meetings, Mass murder, Massacre, Medical experiments, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Memories, Millions, Monstrous
N) Nationalism, Nazi, Netherlands, Network, Norway
O) Obsession, Occupation, Odious, Officer, Official, Opponent, Order, Orders, Outlaw, Outnumber, Outrage, Overrun, Overthrow
P) Pawn, Perfection, Perish, Perpetrate, Persecution, Plot, Poison, Poland, Poles, Police, Political party, Political prisoner, Population, Possessions, Power, Prayer, Press, Pride, Prison, Proclamation, Prohibit, Propaganda, Prosecution, Proud, Punishment, Purity, Push back
Q) Query, Quest, Questioning, Quick, Quirk
R) Race, Railroad, Rally, Regime, Rehabilitation, Reich, Reichstag (parliament), Rejection, Relocation, Remembrance, Renounce, Reprisal, Resilience, Resistance, Restriction, Retaliation, Retreat, Revenge, Rhineland, Rights, Risk, Route
S) Safety, Salvation, Scare, Scary, Scheme, Schutzstaffel (SS), Secrecy, Security, Seize, Serbs, Sewage, Shelter, Shock, Shootings, Siren, Slaughter, Slave labor, Slogan, Soldier, Sorrow, Spying, Squad, Stalin, Starvation, Steal, Stories, Storm troopers, Strangle, Strict, Struggle, Subvert, Suffering, Supplies, Supreme, Surrender, Survivor, Suspect, Suspicious, Swastika, Sympathy, Synagogue
T) Take-over, Tank, Tarnish, Tattoo, Temperature, Tension, Terrify, Territory, Terror, Thousands, Torture, Tough, Tranferred, Transportation, Treatment, Treaty, Trial
U) Unarmed, Unforgettable, Uniforms, Unions, Universal, Unstable
V) Valor, Verdict, Versailles Treaty, Vicious, Victim, Victory, Viewpoint, Violation, Vision, Vitriolic
W) Waffen-SS, Wail, Warning, Warrant, Wartime, Weaken, Weapon, Widespread, Wipe out, World War II, Worry, Worst, Wound, Wrong
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Y) Yelling, Yellow star, Yiddish, Yield, Youth organization (Hitler youth)
Z) Zeal, Zealot, Zealous
Some German perpetrators:
Paul Joseph Goebbels,Chief Nazi Propagandist
Hermann Goering, Second in Command
Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s Secretary and Deputy
Heinrich Himmler, Chief Executioner
Paul Von Hindenburg,President
Alfred Rosenberg, Philosopher

Benito Mussolini, Italian Dictator

Discussion/Lesson Plan Ideas:
1. Name at least five consequences of Adolf Hitler’s hatred.
2. What means did Adolf Hitler use to murder Jews and ethnics? Where? How?
3. What circumstances contributed to Adolf Hitler’s success and demise?
4. Discuss the plight of the Jews. How was survival possible under the conditions of Hitler’s dictatorship?
5. List the names of the horrible death camps and their locations in various countries
6. Detail examples of resistance and the brave Resistance