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Holocaust [r]: Nazi Germany's systematic economic exploitation, followed by killing, of European Jews and others deemed racial and ideological enemies ^[e]
- Final Solution [r]: Nazi policy (in German: Endlösung) which culminated in the Holocaust. ^[e]
- Auschwitz Concentration Camp [r]: The largest Nazi death camp, in which more than two million people died, located in Poland; first commanded by Rudolf Hoess. ^[e]
Schutzstaffel [r]: A Nazi German organization, the "SS". technically part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party but in many respects a "state within a state", its functions intermingled with government offices in a manner characteristic of Adolf Hitler's desire to keep final control. While it is best known for its security and genocidal operations, it also had major economic and regular military roles, a far growth from its original role as Hitler's personal bodyguard ^[e]
Nazi race and biological ideology [r]: The policies of Nazi Germany, based on the views of Adolf Hitler, which emphasized encouraging the breeding of what he considered to be a superior race and preventing the breeding, or actively killing, what he considered subhuman ^[e]

Auschwitz Concentration Camp [r]: The largest Nazi death camp, in which more than two million people died, located in Poland; first commanded by Rudolf Hoess. ^[e]
- Rudolf Hoess [r]: (1900-1947) SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer; Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1938 -1940); first Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (4 May 1940 to 10 November 1943); testified extensively at the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg); executed by a Polish court in 1947 ^[e]
  - Eduard Wirths [r]: (1909-1945) Chief Medical Officer of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp (September 1942-January 1945); described by Robert Jay Lifton as conscientious, but also was the local supervisor of Josef Mengele and others; committed suicide shortly after surrender ^[e]
Kaiser William Institute of Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Otmar von Verscheur [r]: Professor at the Kaiser William Institute of Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics, who was part of the development of Nazi race and biological ideology; he was one of Josef Mengele's teachers and directed his experiments and Auschwitz Concentration Camp ^[e]

Olga Lengyel [r]: (1908-2001) physician's assistant deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1944, ; experimental assistant to Josef Mengele; wrote book about Auschwitz and founded library ^[e]
Miklos Nyiszli [r]: Add brief definition or description
Gisella Perl [r]: Obstetrician/gynecologist; prisoner assistant to Josef Mengele at Auschwitz Concentration Camp; secretly performed abortions to prevent mothers from being executed ^[e]
Martina Puzyna [r]: Anthropologist and prisoner assistant to Josef Mengele at Auschwitz Concentration Camp ^[e]

Argentina [r]: Second largest South American country; speaks Spanish. ^[e]
Brazil [r]: Largest country in South America with a population of 190 million people and rich resources; Portuguese is the national language ^[e]
Paraguay [r]: Country in Central South America, northeast of Argentina, which also has boundaries with Bolivia and Brazil. ^[e]
- Alfredo Stroessner [r]: (1912-2006) Paraguayan general who took control of Paraguay in a military coup; dictator from 1954 to 1989. ^[e]

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