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Literary Workshop
Write the appropriate words in the blank spaces.

A.Hitler Europe Nazi Jews Allied officials citizens

survivors countries propaganda rights death Holocaust injury

armbands damage dictatorship displaced persons concentration forced-labour

dangerous Final Solution decrees and regulations ghettos mass murder

World War I (1914-1918) devastated (1)___________________ and created new ___________________.

(2)

The years that followed saw the continent struggle to recover from the (3) ___________________ or

___________________ of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians, as well as catastrophic (5)___________________

(4)

to property and industry.

Following the appointment of (6)___________________ as German chancellor, the (7)___________________

state, also known as the Third Reich, quickly became a regime in which (8)___________________ had no guaranteed

basic ___________________. In 1933, the regime established the first

(9) ___________________ camps,
(10)

imprisoning its political opponents and others classified as (11) ___________________. Extensive

(12) ___________________ was used to spread the racist goals and ideas. The first six years of the

(13) ___________________, German (14)___________________ felt the effects of more than 400

(15) ___________________ that restricted all aspects of their public and private lives.

The ___________________, the systematic plan of genocide, took place in the broader context of World
(16)

War II. German (17)___________________ confiscated property, in many places required Jews to wear identifying

(18) ___________________, established (19)___________________ and (20)___________________ camps.

In a period marked by intense fighting on both eastern and western fronts of WW II, Germany also

intensified its pursuit of the “(21)________________________”. When ___________________ troops entered the
(22)

concentration camps, they discovered testimony to Nazi ___________________. They also found thousands of
(23)

(24) ___________________, who were housed in (25) ___________________camps. In the following years, many

international and domestic courts conducted trials of accused war criminals.