War Crimes Vocabulary

noun A place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.

• During World War II, millions of people were imprisoned in concentration camps by the Nazi regime.
• I can't believe my great-grandfather survived a concentration camp during the war.
• That party was so crowded, it felt like a concentration camp in there.
• Being stuck in traffic for hours felt like being in a concentration camp.

verb to treat a sacred place or object with disrespect or damage it in some way

• Vandals attempted to desecrate the historical monument.
• Some jerks tried to mess up the old statue.
• Those punks tried to trash the sacred site.
• His actions seemed to desecrate the memory of his ancestors.

noun the state of being completely destroyed or killed

• The extermination of pests in the agricultural fields was carried out using environmentally friendly methods.
• We hired a company to take care of the extermination of the ants in our kitchen.
• I heard there's a new product on the market for bug extermination that works like a charm.
• The extermination of creativity in the workplace stifled innovation and progress.

noun The Gestapo was the secret police of Nazi Germany, known for its brutal tactics and suppression of dissent.

• The Gestapo was the secret police of Nazi Germany during World War II.
• My grandfather told me stories about how people lived in fear of the Gestapo.
• The Gestapo were like the boogeymen of that time, always watching and ready to pounce.
• The strict new manager runs the office like a Gestapo, monitoring everyone's every move.

noun N/A

verb verb shows an action or a state of being, in this case, 'mutilated' is the past tense of the verb 'mutilate' which means to severely damage or disfigure

adjective adjective describes a noun or pronoun, in this case, 'mutilated' describes something that has been severely damaged or disfigured

adverb N/A

pronoun N/A

preposition N/A

conjunction N/A

interjection N/A

article N/A

• The forensic team discovered the mutilated body in the abandoned warehouse.
• I heard that the poor cat was found mutilated in the alley.
• The gang members mutilated his car as a warning.
• Her reputation was mutilated by the scandal.

noun a form of fascism that incorporates scientific racism and antisemitism

• The rise of Nazism in Germany led to World War II and the Holocaust.
• Nazism is basically the extreme form of fascism.
• Some people still believe in the twisted ideology of Nazism.
• The spread of hate speech online can be compared to the propaganda tactics used by Nazism.