Transcript World English Dictionary Ku Klux Klan

World English Dictionary
Ku Klux Klan (ˈkuː ˈklʌks ˈklæn) — n
1. a secret organization of White Southerners formed
after the US Civil War to fight Black emancipation
and Northern domination
2. 2. a secret organization of White Protestant
Americans, mainly in the South, who use violence
against Black people, Jewish people, and other
minority groups
[C19 Ku Klux, probably based on Greek kuklos circle +
Klan clan ]
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Ku Klux Klan – circa 1920
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Symbols of the Ku Klux Klan
Holocaust
• –noun
• 1. a great or complete devastation or
destruction, especially by fire.
• 2. a sacrifice completely consumed by
fire; burnt offering.
• 3. (upper-case “H”) the systematic
mass slaughter of European Jews
through execution, gassing, starvation,
among other means by the Nazis.
Nazi
a member of the National Socialist German Workers'
political party of Germany, which in 1933, under Adolf
Hitler, seized political control of the country,
suppressing all opposition and establishing a
dictatorship over all cultural, economic, and political
activities of the people, and promulgated belief in the
supremacy of Hitler as Führer, aggressive antiSemitism, the natural supremacy of the German
people, and the establishment of Germany by
superior force as a dominant world power. The party
was officially abolished in 1945 at the conclusion of
World War II.
an·ti-Sem·i·tism
n. - discrimination against or prejudice
or hostility toward Jews.
SCAPEGOAT
•noun - a person or
group made to bear
the blame for others
or to suffer in their
place.
Euphemism
the substitution of a mild, indirect, or
vague expression for one thought to
be offensive, harsh, or blunt.
example - the expression so
substituted: “To pass away” is a
euphemism for “to die.”
Nazi EUPHEMISMS
• “liquidate” = annihilate
• “transport” = deportation
to a concentration or death
camp.
Propaganda
1. information, ideas, or rumors
deliberately spread widely to help or
harm a person, group, movement,
institution, nation, etc.
2. the deliberate spreading of such
information, rumors, etc.
“If you’re going to tell a lie, tell a big
one. If you keep repeating it, people
will eventually come to believe it.”
-Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Nazi Minister of Propaganda
Desensitize
to make
indifferent,
unaware, or
the like, in
feeling
through
overexposure
(to violence)
Kabbalah
book of Jewish
mystical tradition
based on an
esoteric
interpretation
of
The Bible
Kabbalist
1. an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or
difficult or esoteric matters of the Jewish faith
2. a scholar of the Jewish Kabbalah
Synagogue
a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for
religious instruction.
2. an assembly or congregation of Jews for
the purpose of religious worship.
Talmud
the collection of Jewish law and
tradition
Rosh Hashanah
The Jewish high holy day that marks
the beginning of the Jewish New Year
Passover
a Jewish festival that commemorates
the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt and is
marked chiefly by the Seder ritual dinner
The Festival of Freedom
atonement - reparation for a wrong or
injury; to make amends.
Yom Kippur
Day of Atonement
a Jewish high holy day observed on
the 10th day of the month of Tishri
by abstinence from food and drink
and by the daylong recitation of
prayers of repentance in the
synagogue.
Kaddish – prayer for the dead
Zionism
a worldwide Jewish movement that
resulted in the establishment and
development of the state of Israel.
Yellow Star
Star of
David
-labeling of
the Jews by
use of the
Jewish
badge
Ghetto
a section of a city in which all Jews
were required to live
Warsaw Ghetto
Warsaw Ghetto
Wladek Szpilman
The Pianist
Krakow Ghetto
Schindler’s List
Sighet Ghetto
Elie Wiesel
Night
Cattle Cars
Swastika
1. a primitive religious symbol or ornament in the
shape of a Greek cross, usually having the ends of the
arms bent at right angles in either a clockwise or
anticlockwise direction
2. this symbol with clockwise arms, officially adopted
in 1935 as the emblem of Nazi Germany
S.S.
(Schutzstaffel)
an elite military
unit of the Nazi
party that served
as Hitler's
bodyguard and as
a special police
force.
S.S.
Gestapo
The German state
secret police during
the Nazi regime,
organized in 1933
and notorious for its
brutal methods and
operations.
Heinrich Himmler
Head of the Gestapo
Crematorium - furnace for cremating.
Auschwitz
Kommando - unit or command - the
basic unit of organization of slave
labourers in Nazi concentration
camps.
Sonder-Kommando
work units of Nazi death camp
prisoners, composed almost entirely
of Jews, who were forced, on threat
of their own deaths, forced into
guarding newly-arrived inmates,
escorting them to gas chambers,
searching the bodies & burning them.
Kapo
a prisoner who was given privileges in
return for supervising prisoner work
gangs: often a common criminal and
frequently brutal to fellow inmates.
other
targeted
victims
in
The Holocaust
“Gypsi”
220,000- 270,000 murdered
Roma
&
Sinti
Persons with Disabilities
200,000 - 250,000 murdered
Homosexuals
5,000 – 15,000
murdered
Jehovah’s Witnesses
2,000 – 5,000 murdered
Intellectuals
“Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.”
-Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propoganda
Dr. Mengele
One of the SS
physicians who
supervised the
selection of arriving
transports of
prisoners,
determining who was
to be killed and who
was to become a
forced laborer, but is
far more infamous for
performing grisly
human experiments
on camp inmates.
Angel of Death
Arbeit Macht Frei
“Work Will Make You Free”
Selection
the process of
“selecting” prisoners
for work details or
for the gas chamber
“To hear a witness is
to become a witness oneself.”
-Elie Wiesel
You are my witness.
Do not stand idly by.