Antisemitism: hatred of Jews as a group or a concept; belief that the Jews as a people are inferior; prejudice or promotion of stereotypes about the Jewish people or Judaism as a religion (see propaganda above)
Genocide: in 1948, the United Nations defined genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, including:
Holocaust: the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators
Kristallnacht: November 9-10, 1938; Also known as the “night of broken glass;” acts of extreme violence and vandalism that the Nazis carried out against the Jewish people in Germany; Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses, and killed close to 100 Jews
Nationalism: Devotion, especially excessive or undiscriminating devotion, to the interests or culture of a particular nation-state
Naziism: the ideology and practice of the National Socialist Workers’ Party (Nazi) under Adolf Hitler, especially the policy of racist nationalism, national expansion, and state control of the economy
Nuremberg Laws: series of laws imposed on the Jewish people in Germany by Hitler which stripped Jews of their citizenship rights and reduced them to mere “subjects” of the state
Racism: historical, institutional, social, and political practices that enforce the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics
Genocide: in 1948, the United Nations defined genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, including:
- Killing members of the group
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
Holocaust: the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators
Kristallnacht: November 9-10, 1938; Also known as the “night of broken glass;” acts of extreme violence and vandalism that the Nazis carried out against the Jewish people in Germany; Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses, and killed close to 100 Jews
Nationalism: Devotion, especially excessive or undiscriminating devotion, to the interests or culture of a particular nation-state
Naziism: the ideology and practice of the National Socialist Workers’ Party (Nazi) under Adolf Hitler, especially the policy of racist nationalism, national expansion, and state control of the economy
Nuremberg Laws: series of laws imposed on the Jewish people in Germany by Hitler which stripped Jews of their citizenship rights and reduced them to mere “subjects” of the state
- Forbid marriages between Jews and non-Jews
- Jews could not vote or hold public office
- Jews were not considered citizens of the German state
- A Jew is anyone descended from at least three Jewish grandparents
- Jews could only hold names deemed by the German state to be Jewish
Racism: historical, institutional, social, and political practices that enforce the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics