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Abwehr
Aktion
Anschluss
Antisemitism
Appeasement
Article 48
Aryan
Aryanisation
Assimilation
Axis

B

Belzec
Blackshirts
Bolshevism
Beer Hall Putsch
Brownshirts
Buchenwald 		C

Caricature
Chancellor
Communism
Concentration camp
Cosmopolitan
Coup d'etat

D

Dachau
Death camp
Death Marches
Deportation
Displaced persons
DNVP
DVP
 E

Egalitarian
Einsatzgruppen
Enabling Act
Ethnic
Extermination camp
One of six camps set up by the Nazis exclusively for the purpose of killing men, women and children en masse as efficiently as possible, through the use of poisonous gas. These included Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. Within three years, over four million people were murdered by the Nazis in these six camps alone.
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Hitlers Rise to Power
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