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Race

A group of people said to have a common ancestry and with similar features such as skin, eye or hair colour. There are said to be three main races of people, and scientists in the Nineteenth century tried to subdivide these further. The Nazis went on to try and create a pure Aryan race that they thought was superior to all others. It is apparent, however, that there is no such thing as a pure race; people have been mixing since time immemorial.

P

Pacifism
Palestine
Pappen, Franz von
Partisans
Plebiscite
Pogrom
Propaganda
Proportional
representation
Putsch

R

Race
Racial Hygiene
Racism
Rathenau, Walter
Referendum
Refugee
Reich
Reichsführer SS

Reichstag
Reparations
Resistance
Rhineland
Rohm, Ernst
Rome-Berlin Axis
Roosevelt, President

S

SA
Saar
Sachsenhausen
SD
Segregation
Selection
Schirach, Baldur von Schushnigg, Kurt von Shoah
SIPO
Sobibor
Social Darwinism
Socialism

Sonderbehandlung Sonderkommando
SPD
SS
Sterilisation Stereotype
Swastika
Synagogue

T

Third Reich Totalitarian
Transit camp