Tennessee Holocaust Commission The Holocaust: A Glossary
Operation involving the mass assembly, deportation, and murder
of Jews by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The code name for the
destruction of European Jews, it was named for Heydrich
Reinhard, Nazi official who had been tasked with implementing
the "Final Solution" and who was assassinated by Czech partisans
in May 1942. The nations fighting against Nazi Germany, Italy,
and Japan during World War II; primarily the United States,
Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. Hatred of Jews Annexation
of Austria by Germany on March 13, 1938. "Aryan" as the Nazis
applied the term was to mean people of Northern European racial
background. Their aim was to avoid what they considered the
polluting of the German race" and to preserve the purity of
European blood. The Axis powers originally included Nazi
Germany, Italy, and Japan who signed a pact in Berlin on
September 27, 1940. They were later joined by Bulgaria, Croatia,
Hungary, and Slovakia. Immediately upon their