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Holocaust Vocabulary List 2

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  1. acquiescence
    agreement with a statement or proposal to do something
  2. genocide
    systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
  3. Gestapo
    the secret state police in Nazi Germany
  4. ideology
    an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group
  5. incarceration
    the state of being imprisoned
  6. indoctrination
    teaching someone to accept beliefs uncritically
  7. Orthodox
    of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church
  8. SA
    Nazi militia created by Hitler in 1921 that helped him to power but was eclipsed by the SS after 1943
  9. SS
    special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps
  10. totalitarianism
    a form of government in which the ruler is unconstrained
Created on Tue Jan 01 16:14:26 EST 2013 (updated Tue Jan 01 16:22:30 EST 2013)

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