World English Dictionary Ku Klux Klan  (ˈkuː ˈklʌks ˈklæn) — n a secret organization of White Southerners formed after the US Civil War to fight Black emancipation and Northern domination 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

KU KLUX KLAN – Feb., 2010, Georgia

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The Next Generation

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 anti-Semitism, 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’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

The Festival of Freedom 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   “To hear a witness is to become a witness oneself.” -Elie Wiesel You are my witness. Do not stand idly by.