define the holocaust
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Progrom- organized massacre Ghetto-(formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live. Einsatzgruppen- Mobile units of the Security Police and SS Security Service that followed the German armies to Poland. Partisans- a member of a party of light or irregular troops engaged in harassing an enemy Schutzstaffel- an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS Gestapo- the secret state police in Nazi Germany, noted for its brutal methods of interrogation Genocide- the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. Shoah- the holocaust. Euthanasia- painless death.