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Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Adler, the emblematic German eagle
• agrarpolitischer Apparat (aA) – Agrarian Apparatus; Agricultural Affairs Bureau of the NSDAP.
  • Leadership hierarchy: Reichsleitungsfachberater held by R. Walther Darré; Gaufachberater; Bezirksfachberater; Kreisfachberater; Ortsgruppenfachberater.
  • Agents: LVL; Landesfachberater (consultants).
  • Administrative: Hilfsreferenten (staff members); Sachbearbeiter (aides); Hilfsreferenten responsible for day-to-day propaganda campaign.
• Aktion T4 – code name for the extermination of mentally ill and handicapped patients by the Nazi authorities. (Named after Tiergartenstraße 4, the address of Nazi Central Office in Berlin.)
• Alles für Deutschland (Everything for Germany) -- Motto applied to the blades of uniform daggers worn by the SA and NSKK.
• Alter Kämpfer (Old fighter) – A Nazi Party member who joined the party before the Beer Hall Putsch.
• Altreich – old state or country; term used to describe Germany before the annexation of Austria.
• Amtsleiter – convener of NSDAP Party committees. They were personally answerable to Hitler.
• Anschluss (Anschluß) – annexation, in particular the annexation of Austria in 1938.
• Anti-Comintern Pact – the agreement by Germany, Japan and Italy to oppose the Communist International (the Comintern).
• anti-semitism
• Arbeit adelt "Labor ennobles" -- Motto applied to the blades of uniform daggers worn by officers of the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD, the Reich Labor Service).
• Arbeit macht frei – "Work makes free", an old German peasant saying, not invented by the Nazis. It was placed above the gate to Auschwitz by the commandant Höß.
• Arbeitnehmerschaft – workforce. The Nazis took this word to mean both manual and mental workers.
• "Arbeitertum der Faust und der Stirn" – "Workers of both manual and mental labor"; the Nazi Party self description as an "all-inclusive workers' party" (a term originally designed to carry anti-Communist overtones).

The term Adler, the German word for the bird of prey eagle, is both the last name of many people and an emblematic bird (notably in heraldry, bannistics, numismatics etc. ... The Nazi swastika The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... Richard Walther Darré (14 July 1895 - 5 September 1953), SS-Obergruppenführer, was one of the Nazi leading ‘blood and soil’ ideologists. ... The Scream, the famous painting commonly thought of as depicting the experience of mental illness. ... This poster reads: This person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community of the people 60,000 Reichsmark during his lifetime. ... Location of Berlin within Germany / EU Coordinates Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DE3 City subdivisions 12 boroughs Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit (SPD) Governing parties SPD / Left. ... The seal of SA The   or SA (German for Storm division, usually translated as stormtroop(er)s ), functioned as a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP — the German Nazi party. ... The National Socialist Motor Corps (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrerkorps), also known as the National Socialist Drivers Corps, was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi party that existed between the years of 1931 and 1945. ... The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed coup détat that occurred between the evening of Thursday, November 8 and the early afternoon of Friday, November 9, 1923, when the Nazi partys Führer Adolf Hitler, the popular World War I General Erich Ludendorff, and other leaders of the... Altreich (Old Empire) is a German term used from 1938 to 1945 for the territories that were part of the German Empire in 1937, as opposed to Austria (called Ostmark by the Nazis), the Sudetenland and other territories annexed by Germany during the subsequent years. ... Ceremonies during the annexation of Hawaii. ... German troops march into Austria on 12 March 1938. ... Ceremonies during the annexation of Hawaii. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Anti-Comintern Pact was concluded between Nazi Germany and Japan on November 25, 1936. ... The Comintern (Russian: Коммунистический Интернационал, Kommunisticheskiy Internatsional – Communist International, also known as the Third International) was an international Communist organization founded in March 1919, in the midst of the war communism period (1918-1921), by Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik), which intended to fight by all available means, including... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... The Reichsarbeitsdienst (or RAD, Reich Labour Service) was an Auxiliary formation which provided support for the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War. ... Arbeit Macht Frei gate at KZ Sachsenhausen Arbeit Macht Frei at Auschwitz, with the inverted B. Arbeit Macht Frei at concentration camp Terezin in the Czech Republic. ... Auschwitz (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was the largest of the Nazi German concentration camps. ... ... Anti-communism is opposition to communist ideology, organization, or government, on either a theoretical or practical level. ...

B

• Beefsteak Nazi – SA term for the Strasser wing; brown on the outside and red on the inside. (7)
• Bekennende Kirche – "Confessing Church". The groups of the Protestant churches that resisted Nazification.
• Berufskammern – Nazi's professional organizations
• Bezirksleiter – NSDAP district leaders
• Blitzkrieg – lightning war - quick army invasions aided by tanks and airplanes;
• Blockleiter – lowest official of the NSDAP, responsible for the political supervision of a (city) block, usually 40 to 60 households.
• Blutfahne "Blood flag" - A SA flag bloodied in the attempted Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, November 9, 1923, and revered by the Nazi Party, used in ceremonies.
• Blut und Boden – "Blood and soil". Slogan adopted by the Nazis; it was originally coined by the German former Social Democrat August Winnig, cfr. his Das Reich als Republik 1918-1928, (Stuttgart and Berlin: Cotta, 1928), pg 3.
• Blut und Ehre (Blood and Honor) -- Motto applied to the blades of some uniform daggers worn by the Hitlerjugend, or Hitler Youth.
• bodenständiger Kapitalismus 'capitalism on the ground' – productive capitalism (as opposed to unproductive capitalism) was a Nazi economic concept.
• Brown Creed – term for Nazism
• Brown House – national HQ of the NSDAP, opened 1931; Hitler purchased the Barlow Palace which was the old Italian embassy when Bavaria was an independent state.
• Braunhemden (Brownshirts) – the SA; the leadership obtained khaki shirts that were supposed to be sent to the German troops stationed in colonies in Africa.
• Brigadeführer 'brigade leader' an SS-rank
• Bund Deutscher Mädel – NSDAP League of German Girls; It had three million members in 1937.

The seal of SA The   or SA (German for Storm division, usually translated as stormtroop(er)s ), functioned as a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP — the German Nazi party. ... The Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) was a Christian resistance movement in Nazi Germany. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... The defining characteristic of what is commonly known as Blitzkrieg is that it is a highly mobile form of mechanized warfare. ... A Blockleiter (block leader) was the lowest official of the NSDAP, responsible for the political supervision of a neighbourhood or (city) block and formed the link between the NSDAP and the general population. ... Consecration by Adolf Hitler of the Blutfahne at the 1938 Nuremburg rally. ... SA may stand for: // Students Association, an association of students, also written as S.A. for e. ... The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed coup détat that occurred between the evening of Thursday, November 8 and the early afternoon of Friday, November 9, 1923, when the Nazi partys Führer Adolf Hitler, the popular World War I General Erich Ludendorff, and other leaders of the... Blood and Soil (German Blut und Boden) was a phrase and doctrine exploited by Adolf Hitler to provide moral justification for the ejection of the Jewish, and generally non-Germanic, people. ... Blood and Soil (German: Blut und Boden) was a phrase and doctrine exploited by Adolf Hitler to provide moral justification for the ejection of the Jewish, and generally non-Germanic, people. ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Brown House (Braunehaus) was the national headquarters of the Nazi party in Germany. ... Hitler addressing SA members in the late 1920s The Sturmabteilung (SA, German for Storm Division and is usually translated as stormtroops or stormtroopers) functioned as a paramilitary organisation of the NSDAP – the German Nazi party. ... Brigadeführer was an SS rank that was used in Nazi Germany between the years of 1932 and 1945. ... After the Nazi Gleichschaltung in Germany in 1933, the Bund Deutscher Mädel (frequently used in its abbreviated form, BDM) (League of German Girls) was the all-German party organization for girls between 14 and 18 years of age, as the girls segment of the Hitler Youth. ...

C

• Conservative Revolutionary movement – a Weimar period German nationalist literary youth movement that had a significant causal factor in the rise of Nazism.
• Cyclon B - Alternative spelling of Zyklon B, tradename of a cyanide-based insecticide used to kill over one million people (total number of deaths could be up to six million people) in Nazi gas chambers.

The Conservative Revolutionary movement was a German nationalist literary youth movement, prominent in the years following The First World War. ... Zyklon B label — Note that “Gift” translates as “poison” Zyklon B was the tradename of a pesticide ultimately used by Nazi Germany in some Holocaust gas chambers. ... Zyklon B label — Note that “Gift” translates as “poison” Zyklon B was the tradename of a pesticide ultimately used by Nazi Germany in some Holocaust gas chambers. ...

D

• Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP) – German Workers Party started by railway workers in Bohemia, Austria and Munich Germany. These were the starter groups that evovled into the DNSAP and the NSDAP in their respective countries.
• Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) - The 'German Labour Front' was the Nazi's substitute organisation for trade unions, which had been outlawed on May 2, 1933.
• Deutsche Christen – the "de-Judaized" Christian church; those who were "Nazified". They removed the whole Old Testament from the Bible.
• Deutsches Jungvolk – Hitler Youth young male association
• Deutscher Frauenorden (DFO) – German Women's Order; The leader was Elsbeth Zander.
• Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (DNSAP) – the Austrian German National Socialist Workers Party.
• Der Dicke - "The fat one", a contemptuous epithet by Germans referring to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, whose blunders while head of the Luftwaffe contributed to Germany's defeat.
• "Die Juden sind unser Unglück" – A Nazi slogan meaning, "The Jews are our misfortune."
• Diktat – as in the Versailler Diktat, a contemptuous description for the Versailles Treaty because Germany wasn't allowed to engage in negotiations about the peace treaty after World War I.
• Drang nach Osten – "Drive to the east", the historic German desire to expand into Slavic lands
• Drittes Reich – Third Reich or third empire. Arthur Moeller van den Bruck coined this term for his book Das dritte Reich published in 1923. The term "Third Reich" was a reference to the "First Reich" (the Holy Roman Empire, beginning with Charlemagne), and the "Second German Reich" (the German Empire, 1871 - 1918)

The German Workers Party (German: Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, short DAP) was a briefly existing progenitor of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party). ... DAF Logo: A swastika within a cog. ... This page may meet Wikipedia’s criteria for speedy deletion. ... Note: Judaism commonly uses the term Tanakh. ... The Deutsches Jungvolk (German Youth) was a subdivision of the Hitler Youth for boys aged 10 to 14. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... Austrian National Socialism was a Pan-Germanic movement that was formed at the beginning of the 20th century. ... The original uniform of the Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring shown in the Luftwaffe-Museum in Berlin. ... Hermann Wilhelm Göring ( ) (also Goering in English) (January 12, 1893 – October 15, 1946) was a German politician and military leader, a leading member of the Nazi Party, second in command of the Third Reich, and commander of the Luftwaffe. ... This or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Woodrow Wilson with the American Peace Commissioners The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 is the peace treaty created as a result of six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 which put an official end to World War I between the Allies and Central Powers. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Distribution of Slavic people by language The Slavic peoples are a linguistic and ethnic branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in Europe, where they constitute roughly a third of the population. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... The extent of the Holy Roman Empire in c. ... A portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer that was painted several centuries after Charlemagnes death. ... Motto Gott mit Uns (German: God with us”) Anthem Heil dir im Siegerkranz (unofficial) Territory of the German Empire in 1914, prior to World War I Capital Berlin Language(s) Official: German Unofficial minority languages: Danish, French, Frisian, Polish, Sorbian Government Constitutional monarchy Emperor  - 1871–1888 William I  - 1888 Frederick...

E

• Eher Verlag – the Nazi Party's official publishing house
• Ehrendolch -- lit. "honor dagger", a presentation dagger awarded for individual recognition, especially by the SS
• Ehrenliste der Ermordeten der Bewegung – Nazi honor roll of those who fought and died for the party before it came to power in January 1933.
• Einsatzgruppen – armies formed mostly by volunteers that followed the Wehrmacht and SS battalions to the Eastern Front to enagage in the mass-murder Jewish people and others whom the Nazis hated.
• Endlösung – "final solution", short for "final solution to the Jewish question" (or "... problem"), a Nazi euphemism for the Holocaust; use of the phrase, even in non-Nazi contexts, e.g., "the final solution of a mathematics problem" is frowned upon in modern Germany.
• Endlösung der Judenfrage – "final solution to the Jewish question"; see Endlösung, above.
• Endsieg – "final victory"; referring to the expected victory in World War II
• Entartete Kunst – degenerate art; term used as the title of an art show consisting of modern and other "degenerate" art.
• Erbhofgesetz – the 1933 NSDAP hereditary farm law; it guaranteed family farm holdings of three hundred acres (1.2 km²) or less.
• Ermächtigungsgesetz – "Law to Relieve the Distress of the People and Reich"; Enabling Act of March 23, 1933
• Ersatz – a substitute product. Germany did not have an easy access to some strategic materials. German scientist had to research how to produce artificial rubber (Buna), and coffee made from roasted acorns, for example.

A member of Einsatzgruppe D is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1942. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... The Final Solution of the Jewish Question (German Endlösung der Judenfrage) refers to the German Nazis plan to address the Jewish problem through systematic relocation and later extermination through genocide during World War II. The term was coined by Adolf Eichmann, a top Nazi official who supervised the genocidal... In a February 26, 1942, letter to German diplomat Martin Luther, Reinhard Heydrich follows up on the Wannsee Conference by asking Luther for administrative assistance in the implementation of the Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution of the Jewish Question). ... In a February 26, 1942 letter to German diplomat Martin Luther, Reinhard Heydrich follows up on the Wannsee Conference by asking Luther for administrative assistance in the implementation of the Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution of the Jewish Question). ... Endsieg is German for final victory. The term is today almost exclusively used with reference to its meaning under Nazi doctrine: Temporary losses (including of civilian lives) nonwithstanding, the Third Reich would ultimately prevail, and thus any breakdown in allegiance to Nazi ideology was not to be tolerated. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler and Adolf Ziegler visit the entartete Kunst exhibition. ... Ersatz is a German name (literal meaning: substitute) for products, especially chemical compounds and provisions developed in wartimes when shortage of certain goods was imminent. ... Household items made out of plastic. ... Buna refers to: Bunna Lawrie, an Aboriginal musician in Australia HMAS Buna (L-132), a Landing craft of the Balikpapan class in the Royal Australian Navy from 1973 to 1974, then given to Papua New Guinea A village on the north coast of Papua-New Guinea, where the Battle of...

F

• Fraktur – a fashion of blackletter popularly associated to Nazi Germany, though the blackletter typefaces were forbidden by Hitler in 1941 on grounds of it being Jewish.
• Frontgemeinschaft – front line community. It was termed for the solidarity felt by the German soldiers of World War I in the trench warfare.
• Führer – leader. Adolf Hitler was called "Der Führer".
• Führerprinzip – the leader principle
• Führerstaat – the concept of Hitler's dictatorship of one-man rule

The German word Fraktur (pronounced in IPA) refers to a specific blackletter typeface. ... Blackletter in a Latin Bible of AD 1407, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Nazi propoganda poster. ... Adolf Hitler made believe he was the incarnation of the Führerprinzip The Führerprinzip, the German name for the leader principle, refers to a system with a hierarchy of leaders that resembles a military structure. ... Forms of government Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by a dictator. ...

G

• Gau, pl. Gaue – territory divided into NSDAP regional districts.
  • Bezirke – districts
    • Kreise – counties or subdistricts; smaller units of the Bezirk
      • Ortsgruppen – Party branch or local branches. It took a minimum of fifteen members to be recognized.
        • Hauszellen – tenement cells
        • Straßenzellen – street cells
        • Stützpunkte – strong points
• Gauleiter – leader of a Gau. They had to swear personal loyality to the Führer. It was also handed out as an honorary title to deserving party members.
• Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) – The Nazi Party secret police. Gestapo was derived as follows: Geheime Staatspolizei.
• Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz – "The common good before the private good"; Rudolf Jung popularized it in his book Der Nationale Sozialismus, 1922, 2nd edition. This became Hitler's basic stance on the subordination of the economy to the national interest. (6)
• Generalgouverneur – Governor-general
• Gleichschaltung – the restructuring of German society and government into streamlined, centralized hierarchies of power, with the intention of gaining total control and coordination of all aspects of society
• Golden pheasants – derogatory term Germans used for high-ranking Nazi Party members. The term derived from the brown and red uniforms with golden insignia worn at official functions and rallies by party members that resembled the brilliant colors of a male pheasant.
• Goosestep (Stechschritt) – a ceremonial marching form of many countries especially of the ones in cold climates (Germany and Russia). The vigorous marching helps keep the participants warm. The form consists of stepping forward without bending the knees. After the Nazis' use of it in their parades it was later used when referring to other totalitarian governments.
• Gottgläubiger, those who broke away from Christianism.
• Gröfaz – mocking acronym for Größter Feldherr aller Zeiten ("greatest general of all time"), an appellation of Hitler
• Großraumwirtschaft – contintental economic zone similar to Lebensraum
• Gruppenführer 'group leader': a rank in the SS

This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP (more commonly known as the Nazi Party) or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau. ... This article or section includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Rudolf Jung (April 16, 1882 - December 11, 1945) was an instrumental force and agitator of Austrian National Socialism and, later on, became a member of the daughter party German Nazi Party. ... The German word Gleichschaltung Ⓗ Ⓘ (literally synchronising, synchronization) is used in a political sense to describe the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control over the individual, and tight coordination over all aspects of society and commerce. ... Genera Ithaginis Catreus Rheinartia Crossoptilon Lophura Argusianus Pucrasia Syrmaticus Chrysolophus Phasianus † See also partridge, quail Pheasants are a group of large birds in the order Galliformes. ... Christianism may refer to: Christianity, or its theory and practice The term Christianist is referred to as early as 1992 in a book by Rémi Brague. ... SS-Gruppenführer collar patch SA-Gruppenführer rank insignia Volkssturm Gruppenführer insignia Gruppenführer was an early paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party, first created in 1925 as a senior rank of the SA. Translated as “Group Leader”, a Gruppenführer was typically in charge of large numbers...

H

• Hakenkreuz 'hooked cross' – swastika
• Herrenvolk/Herrenrasse 'people/race of lords' – master race
• Heimat - the 'homeland' (greater Germany)
• Heimatvertriebene - Germans expelled from their homeland
• HIB-Aktion – "Into the Factories Campaign"; a part of the Nazi campaign to recruit factory workers.
• Hitlerism is another term for Nazism.
• Hitlerproleten – "Hitler's proletariat"; what the Berlin working class Nazis called themselves (to distinguish themselves from the rest of the proletariat). (8)
• Hitler salute (Hitlergruß) – Used when addressing Hitler, higher ranking officers or the Empire.
• Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) – A youth organization founded by the Nazis.
• Hoheitsabzeichen, or more specific Hoheitsadler or Reichsadler – national insignia (eagle and swastika). See Federal Coat of Arms of Germany.

The swastika is a cross with its arms 90° to either right or left. ... A right-facing Swastika in a decorative Hindu form The swastika (from Sanskrit ) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing () or left-facing () forms. ... The master race (German: Herrenrasse, Herrenvolk) is a concept in Nazi ideology, which holds that the Germanic and Nordic people represent an ideal and pure race. It derives from nineteenth century racial theory, which posited a hierarchy of races placing African Bushmen and Australian Aborigines at the bottom of the... For the film see Heimat (film) Heimat is a German word that has no simple English translation. ... This article is in need of attention. ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... The proletariat (from Latin proles, offspring) is a term used to identify a lower social class; a member of such a class is proletarian. ... Adolf Hitler walking out of the Brown House after the 1930 elections, being saluted with the Nazi salute. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Federal Eagle (Bundesadler) is the coat of arms of the Federal Republic of Germany, since 1950 The eagle is the heraldic animal of the coat of arms of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...

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• Illustrierter Beobachter – NSDAP national tabloid

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• Judenrat – Jewish council. The Gestapo established Judenräte (the plural) in ghettoes to have them carry out necessary duties.
• Jüdische Grundspekulationsgesellschaften – Hitler's slang term for Jewish property speculation companies

Judenrats, German for Jewish council, were administrative bodies that the Germans required Jews to form in each ghetto in General Government (the Nazi-occupied teritory of Poland) and later in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. ... A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background live as a group in seclusion, voluntarily or involuntarily. ...

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• Kameradschafts- und Gemeinschaftsstärkung – strengthening of comradeship and community; Nazi party Gleichschaltung of social institutions
• Kapo (Cabo) – Privileged inmates of concentration camps, mostly common criminals. They had to oversee the work of the other inmates and were responsible for the results. Mainly brutal and mean criminals like murderers were assigned as Kapo.
• Kdf-Wagen Predecessor to the Volkswagen Beetle, a project of the Kraft durch Freude program
• Kommando – in general a group with a special assignment
• Konzentrationslager often abbreviated KZ for concentration camp. The correct abbreviation would was KL, but KZ was chosen for the tougher sound.
• Kraft durch Freude (KdF) – "strength through joy", state-sponsored programs intended to organize people's free time, offering cheap holidays, concerts, other leisure activities, and (unsuccessfully) a car (Kdf-Schiff, Kdf-Wagen). It was initially called Nach der Arbeit.
• Kraut – a slang term for Germans applied by Allied soldiers.
• Kreditschöpfungstheorie – Gregor Strasser's idea for government spending and credit creation.
• Kriegserlebnis – (myth of the) war experience
• Kristallnacht or Reichskristallnacht – Crystal Night ; refers to the "Night of Broken Glass", Nov. 9-10, 1938, when mob violence against Jewish people broke out all over Germany.

Kapo can refer to several things: In Polynesian mythology (specifically: Hawaii), Kapo is a goddess of fertility, sorcery and dark powers who can assume any shape she wills. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Volkswagen_Beetle. ... This article is about the original Volkswagen Beetle. ... Kraft durch Freude (abbreviated KdF and meaning strength through joy), was a large state-controlled leisure organization in Nazi Germany, a part of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF), the national German labour organization. ... The German word Konzentrationslager (abbreviated KZ) is a literal translation of the English term, concentration camp. ... Kraft durch Freude (abbreviated KdF and meaning strength through joy), was a large state-controlled leisure organization in Nazi Germany, a part of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF), the national German labour organization. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Volkswagen_Beetle. ... The German word Kraut is a generic term that is often used in compound nouns for cabbage, cabbage products and many herbs: Sauerkraut = pickled sour cabbage Weißkraut = green cabbage Blaukraut or Rotkraut = red cabbage (also called Rotkohl) Rübenkraut = thick sugar beet syrup Bohnenkraut = Savory Unkraut = Weed The word... Gregor Strasser Gregor Strasser (variant German spelling Straßer) (May 31, 1892, Geisenfeld, Germany - June 30, 1934, Berlin) was a politician of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP). ... Kristallnacht, also known as Reichskristallnacht, Pogromnacht, Crystal Night and the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom[1] against Jews throughout Germany and parts of Austria on November 9–10, 1938. ...

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• Landwirtschaftliche Gaufachberater – NSDAP agricultural conventions; first one held in Feb. 8, 1931. They held Bauernkundgebung (farmer's rallies).
• Landwirtschaftliche Vertrauensleute (LVL) – NSDAP agrarian agents; used to infiltrate other agricultural/husbandry/rural organizations to spread Nazi influence and doctrine.
• Landwirtschaftlicher Fachberater – expert consultant on agriculture that was assigned to every NSDAP Gau and Ort unit.
• Lebensborn – "Fountain of Life Society"; an SS organization founded by Himmler and intended to increase the birth rate of "Aryans" by providing unmarried mothers shelter in nursing homes so that they would not seek (illegal) abortions.
• Lebensraum – "Living space", specifically living space for ethnic Germans and generally referring to territories to be seized in Eastern Europe; see Drang nach Osten
• Lebensunwertes Leben - ("Life unworthy of life")
• Leistungsgemeinschaft – performance community; part of the Nazi Gleichschaltung of social institutions
• Luftwaffe – military air force

A Lebensborn birth house Lebensborn (Fount of Life, in German) was a child welfare and relocation program initiated by Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler to aid the racial heredity of the Third Reich. ... Lebensraum (German for habitat or living space) was one of the major political ideas of Adolf Hitler, and an important component of Nazi ideology. ... A single frame from a Roland Klemig film produced by the Reich Propaganda Office. ... This or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

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• Männerbund – bond of men; it was a distinctly masculine mystique which became an essential part of SA ideology.
• Mehr sein als scheinen "Be more than you appear to be." -- Motto applied to blades of uniform daggers worn by the Nationalpolitsche Erziehungsanstalten, or NPEA, the National Political Educational Establishment
• Mein Kampf – "My Struggle", Adolf Hitler's autobiography and political statement
• Meine Ehre heißt Treue "My honor is loyalty" -- Motto applied to the blades of uniform daggers worn by the Schutzstaffel, or SS.
• Militärbefehlshaber – military Governor, who was the (single) head of the executive in an occupied country (when no Reichskommissar was appointed)
• Mischling - used in reference to an individual with alleged partial Jewish ancestry.
• "Mit brennender Sorge" – A letter by the Pope warning against the Nazis.
• Muselmann – “an inmate who had resigned himself to death and lost the will to do anything to help himself survive”. (1)
• Mutterkreuz – a special cross awarded on three levels to all mothers "of favorable standing" who fulfilled the baby quota. A bronze medal was bestowed on mothers with four or five children, a silver one for six or seven children, and finally a gold one for eight or more children.

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• Nacht und Nebel – "Night and fog", code for some prisoners that were to be disposed of leaving no traces.
• Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt - the National Political Educational Establishment, or NPEA
• National Socialist Teachers Association
• Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (NSDStB) - Nazi Students League, founded in 1926
• Nazi is an acronym for the German National Socialist Workers Party and also the word for a supporter of fascist ideology. As an adjective, this short form is used more often in English language than in German.
  • denazification (Entnazifizierung) – the process by which the Allied occupiers attempted to rid post war Germany of remnants of the Nazi regime and Nazi philosophy
  • ex-Nazis – former Nazis
• Nazism; the ideology of the NSDAP (generally considered to be a variant of Fascism under a misleading name)
• NSDAP Zentralkartei – master file, containing approx. 7.2 million original and official individual German Nazi Party membership cards. Comprises of two separate files. It is housed in the Berlin Document Center (BDC).
  • Ortskartei –
  • Reichskartei —
• Nationalsozialistische Betriebzellenorganisation (NSBO) – National Socialist Factory Cell Organization (Nazi Party labor union) which had a membership of approx. 400,000 workers by Jan. 1933.
• Nationalsozialistische Briefe – pro-labor publication launched by Gregor Strasser and edited by Joseph Goebbels.
• Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) – the National Socialist German Workers Party of Adolf Hitler
• Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft (NSF) – NSDAP Women's Group headed by Gertrud Scholtz-Klink; designed to create women leaders and supervise indoctrination and training. It had 2 million members by 1938
• National-Sozialistische Landpost – NSDAP agricultural paper started by R. Walther Darré.
• Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (NSV) – NSDAP welfare organization founded in Berlin in Sept. 1931. It acquired the official role in welfare and later on the racial policy of the Third Reich.
• Night of the Long Knives – on June 30, 1934, Hitler murderously purged the ranks of the S.A.
• Nur für Deutsche - "For Germans Only."

To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Bezirksfahne des NSDStB The National Socialist German Students League (in German, Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund; abbreviated NSDStB), was founded in 1926 as a division of the NSDAP with the mission of integrating University-level education and academic life within the framework of the National Socialist worldview. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Backronym and Apronym (Discuss) Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and ABC, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form. ... There are numerous debates concerning fascism and ideology and where fascism fits on the political spectrum. ... Denazification (German: Entnazifizierung) was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary and politics of any remnants of the Nazi regime. ... This article is about former Nazis; for active groups, see: Neo-Nazism. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... The Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation (Nazi Factory Cell Organization) was an organization of workplace groups for the Nazi Party formed in 1931. ... The Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation (Nazi Factory Cell Organization) was an organization of workplace groups for the Nazi Party formed in 1931. ... Gregor Strasser Gregor Strasser (variant German spelling Straßer) (May 31, 1892, Geisenfeld, Germany - June 30, 1934, Berlin) was a politician of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP). ... Paul Joseph Goebbels (German pronunciation: IPA: ) (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the National Socialist regime from 1933 to 1945. ... Gertrud Scholtz-Klink Gertrud Scholtz-Klink nee Treusch (February 9, 1902 - March 24, 1999) Fervent Nazi Party member and Reichs Womens Leader. ... Richard Walther Darré (14 July 1895 - 5 September 1953), SS-Obergruppenführer, was one of the Nazi leading ‘blood and soil’ ideologists. ... The Racial Policy of Nazi Germany refers to the policies and laws implemented by Nazi Germany, asserting the superiority of the Aryan race, and including measures aimed primarily against Jews. ... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... Nur für Deutsche (German: For Germans only): during World War II, in many German-occupied countries, signs bearing this admonition were posted at entrances to parks, cafes, cinemas, theaters and other facilities reserved for Germans only. ...

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• Oberführer 'senior leader' an SS-rank
• Obergruppenführer : an SS-rank
• Ordensburgen – NSDAP training schools
• Ordnungsdienst – order service, ghetto police made up of Jewish ghetto residents.
• Ordnertruppen – first name of the group created in the fall of 1920 by Hitler
  • Sportabteilung – Sports section (SA); the second name of the group.
  • Sturmabteilung (SA) – Storm troopers. NSDAP paramilitary group; the third name in late 1921.
• Ostmark – Austria as part of the German Empire after the Anschluß

SS-Oberführer Collar Patch SA-Oberführer Collar Patch Oberführer was an early paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party dating back to 1921. ... SS-Obergruppenführer Erich von dem Bach-Zalewski SS-Obergruppenführer patch SA-Obergruppenführer insignia Obergruppenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was first created in 1932 as a rank of the SA. Translated as Senior Group Leader, the rank of SA-Obergruppenführer was held by... The seal of SA The   or SA (German for Storm division, usually translated as stormtroop(er)s ), functioned as a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP — the German Nazi party. ... Ostmark (Eastern March) is a modern German term to translate the term Ostarrîchi a vernacular for marcia orientalis that appears in a single later 10th century document. ... Motto Gott mit Uns (German: God with us”) Anthem Heil dir im Siegerkranz (unofficial) Territory of the German Empire in 1914, prior to World War I Capital Berlin Language(s) Official: German Unofficial minority languages: Danish, French, Frisian, Polish, Sorbian Government Constitutional monarchy Emperor  - 1871–1888 William I  - 1888 Frederick... German troops march into Austria on 12 March 1938. ...

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• Pan-Germanism – The idea that all Germans should live in one country.
• Panzer (military) – Armoured vehicle such as tank; not specific to Third Reich, but listed here for its centrality to Blitzkrieg
• Panzerfaust "armour fist" -- An inexpensive, recoilless anti-tank weapon of World War II.
• Partei-Statistik – 1935 Nazi Party three volume publication of membership data
• Planwirtschaft – a limited planned economy; Walther Funk promoted this idea within the Nazi party who thought genuine corporatism too stifling for business growth
• Plötzensee – a place in Berlin, site of a notorious prison where numerous opponents of Hitler and the Nazi régime were put to death.
• Putsch – German word meaning coup or revolt; has also entered the English language meaning the same.

Pan-Germanism, one of the ethnically-charged political movements of the 19th century for unity of the German-speaking peoples of Europe. ... Panzer IV Ausf. ... 4 Panzerfausts in the original casing, displayed in Helsinki Military Museum Panzerfaust. ... Walter Funk Walter Emanuel Funk (August 18, 1890 - May 31, 1960) was a prominent Nazi official. ... Plötzensee is a lake in Berlin with an area of 7. ... A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ...

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• Quisling – A pejorative meaning "traitor" during WWII, commonly used as an insult directed at a citizen who collaborated with the Germans in one of the conquered nations. The term was taken from Vidkun Quisling, the pro-Nazi illegitimate Norwegian leader.

Quisling, after Norwegian fascist politician Vidkun Quisling, is a term used to describe traitors and collaborationists. ... Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling, (July 18, 1887 – October 24, 1945) was a Norwegian army officer and fascist politician. ...

R

• Rasse – race
• Rassenhygiene – racial hygiene
• Rassenschande – (literally "racial shame"); a Nazi term for sexual relations between an Aryan and a Jew, which were banned by the Nuremberg laws.
• Rednerschule der NSDAP – National Socialist Speaker's School
• Regierungspräsident - 'president' of a regional administration, in fact subordinate to the Nazi party's Gauleiter
• Reich – Empire
• Reichsarbeitsdienst - Reich Labour Service, or RAD; 1931 formed as an auxiliary labour service, became 1935 obligatory (six month) for all men and women between 18 and 25 years
• Reichsbauernführer – National Farmers' Leader; title given to R. Walther Darré
• Reichsbevollmächtigter – Imperial Plenipotentiary in occupied territory
• Reichskommissar – Imperial Commissioner, a type of Governor in occupied territory
• Reichskonferenz – National Caucus; national caucuses held by the Austrian Deutsche Arbeiterpartei before WWI.
• Reichsleitung – national leadership; members of the NSDAP Party Directorate. They all swore personal loyalty to the Führer.
• Reichsmark (RM) 'Mark of the empire' – German monetary unit
• Reichsmarschall - "Marshal of the Empire", the highest rank in the German armed forces during World War II (e.g., Hermann Göring).
• Reichsmordwoche, Nacht der langen Messer – "Reich Murder Week, Night of the Long Knives" of June–July 1934 during which Hitler assassinated hundreds of party-internal opponents, especially the SA, which was decapitated of its leadership.
• Reichsparteitage – "Reich Party Days", Nazi party rallies, held annually in Nüremberg before the outbreak of war in 1939.
• Reichsprotektor – German representative in the Czech Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
• Reichsschrifttumkammer – the Nazi Chamber of Literature. Hanns Johst was president.
• Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) – an SS subsidiary organization originally led by Reinhard Heydrich and charged with fighting the Reich's ideological and racial enemies.
• Reichsstatthalter – "imperial Stadtholder", i.e. Reich Governor; after the seizure of power in 1933, local governments were dissolved and the Gauleiters were appointed to govern the states with full powers.
• Reichstag – "Imperial Diet (or Parliament)"; see Reichstag (building) and Reichstag (institution)
• Reichstrunkenbold - "Reich drunkard", derogative name secretly given to Robert Ley whose alcoholism was widely known.
• Reinrassig - a zoological term meaning "of pure breed." Applied to human races, persons who could not prove their Aryan ancestry could be considered nicht Reinrassig.
• Revolution der Gesinnung – revolution of attitude; the concept that the German people would not only develop a purified race but also a new mind and spirit. It was about, in Hitler's words, "to create a new man". (5)

For other uses, see Race (disambiguation). ... Racial hygiene (often labeled a form of scientific racism) is the selection, by a government, of the most physical, intellectual and moral persons to raise the next generation (selective breeding) and a close alignment of public health with eugenics. ... Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were denaturalization laws passed in Nazi Germany. ... A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP (more commonly known as the Nazi Party) or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau. ...   (IPA: ; German: IPA: ), is the German word for realm or empire, cognate with Scandinavian rike/rige, Dutch rijk and English ric as found in bishopric. ... The Reichsarbeitsdienst (or RAD, Reich Labour Service) was an Auxiliary formation which provided support for the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War. ... Richard Walther Darré (14 July 1895 - 5 September 1953), SS-Obergruppenführer, was one of the Nazi leading ‘blood and soil’ ideologists. ... The term plenipotentiary (from the Latin, plenus + potens, full + power) refers to, as a noun, a person who has, or as an adjective that confers, full powers. ... The term plenipotentiary (from the Latin, plenus + potens, full + power) refers to, as a noun, a person who has, or as an adjective that confers, full powers. ... Reichskommissar (Commissionary of the Empire) was an official title of authorized representative of the Deutsches Reich (after 1871) who was appointed to a special task, e. ... User(s) Germany Subunit 1/100 Reichspfennig Symbol RM Reichspfennig Rpf. ... The original uniform of the Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring shown in the Luftwaffe-Museum in Berlin. ... Hermann Wilhelm Göring ( ) (also Goering in English) (January 12, 1893 – October 15, 1946) was a German politician and military leader, a leading member of the Nazi Party, second in command of the Third Reich, and commander of the Luftwaffe. ... The Nuremberg Rally (officially, Reichsparteitag, literally reich party day) was the annual rally of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) in the years 1923 to 1938 in Germany. ... Protector is historical title with multiple meanings; this article also includes a few litteral equivalents thus rendered // Political & Administrative Heads of State in Europe in Iceland: one Sovereign was styled Beskytter af hele e Island (Protector of Land of Iceland) 25 Jun - 22 Aug 1809 (an intermezzo between Danish Governors... The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (in German: Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren, in Czech: Protektorát Čechy a Morava) was a German protectorate that arose in central parts of Bohemia and Moravia on March 15, 1939 when Germany invaded the western part of former Czechoslovakia, the former... Hanns Johst (July 8, 1890 - November 23, 1978) was a German playwright and Nazi Poet Laureate. ... RSHA, or the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, was a subsidiary organization of the S.S. created by Heinrich Himmler on September 22, 1939, through the merger of the Sicherheitsdienst, the Gestapo and the Kriminalpolizei. ... Reinhard Heydrich as SS-Gruppenführer. ... Reichsstatthalter, German Statthalter (cfr. ... A stadtholder (Dutch: stadhouder meaning place holder, a Germanic parallel to Latin locum tenens or French lieutenant), means an official who is appointed by the legal ruling Monarch to represent him in a country, and may have a mandate to govern it in his name, in the latter case roughly... The Reichstag building. ... The Reichstag (German for Imperial Diet) was the parliament of the Holy Roman Empire, the North German Confederation, and of Germany until 1945. ... Dr Robert Ley Dr. Robert Ley (15 February 1890 – 25 October 1945), Nazi German politician, was head of the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945. ... Reinrassig is a German zoological term meaning of pure breed.[1] In Nazi Germany, the term was applied to human races. ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ... A breed is a domesticated subspecies or infrasubspecies of an animal. ... The term race serves to distinguish between populations or groups of people based on different sets of characteristics which is commonly determined through social conventions. ... The Aryan race is a concept in European culture that was influential in the period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ...

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• Schönheit der Arbeit – Beauty of Labor program
• Schutzstaffel (SS) – Defense Squads; Hitler's personal body guard unit which was also a branch of the military. "SS" is formed from (S)chutz(s)taffel. They are popularly perceived as wearing totally black uniforms.
  • Allgemeine-SS – general body of the Schutzstaffel consisting of full-time, part-time and honorary members.
  • SS Totenkopfverbände – Death's-head units.
  • Verfügungstruppe – "ready" action troops organized by the SS in 1938.
  • Waffen-SS – later name of the Verfügungstruppe.
• Das Schwarze Korps – The Black Corps; SS "theoretical" journal
• Sieg Heil! – "Hail to Victory", mass exclamation when bringing the Hitlergruß (Hitler Greeting).
• Sig Rune "S rune" -- The letter from the runic alphabet popularized in the SS emblem and other insignia.
• Sonderkraftfahrzeug (Sd.Kfz.) – Special purpose motor vehicle; used to refer to half-tracks.
• Sprechabend – closed Nazi party meetings
• Sprachregelung – a special language that masked the camp conditions and the policy of extermination. It took the words "extermination", "killing", "liquidation"; and substituted for them, the euphemisms: "final solution", "evacuation", "special treatment", "resettlement", "labour in the East". It was developed to deceive victims and to assist SS officials to avoid having to face reality. (2)
• Standartenführer an SS-rank
• Ständesozialismus – corporative (or "corporate") socialism; promoted by O. W. Wagener, sometime head of the political economy section of the party organization.
• Stoßtrupp – Hitler's body guard unit before the Hitlerputsch; forerunner to the SS.
• Strasser wing – named after Gregor Strasser who lead the left wing of the Nazi Party.
• Stücke – pieces. A Sprachregelung term for Jews and other undesirables that dehumanized them. (They were no longer humans or persons but pieces.)
• Sturmabteilung (SA) – a Nazi paramilitary that was instrumental in bringing Hitler to power.
• Sturmbannführer: an SS-rank
• Sturmführer an SS-rank
• Sturmhauptführer an SS-rank
• Der Stürmer – a weekly anti-Semitic newspaper founded by Julius Streicher.

The   (German for Protective Squadron), abbreviated (Runic) or SS (Latin), was a large security and military organization of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) in Germany. ... The SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) — the Skull Formations — were made up of Nazi Germanys concentration camp guards. ... The SS-Verfügungstruppe (combat support force) (short: SS-VT) was created in 1934 from the merger of various Nazi and right-wing paramilitary formations. ... Waffen-SS recruitment poster; Volunteer to the Waffen-SS The Waffen-SS was the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel. ... Das Schwarze Korps (The Black Corps), the official SS newspaper. ... SS or ss or Ss may be: The Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force Steamship (SS) (ship prefix) The United States Secret Service A submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN A Soviet/Russian surface-to-surface missile, as listed by NATO reporting name Shortstop... Sieg Heil is a German phrase, which literally means Hail [to] Victory. ... Two Sig Runes: The symbol of the Nazi SS Sig Rune is the name given by Guido von List for the Sigel or s rune of the futhark. ... For other uses, see Rune (disambiguation). ... The   (German for Protective Squadron), abbreviated (Runic) or SS (Latin), was a large security and military organization of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) in Germany. ... SS-Standartenführer insignia Standartenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in both the SA and the SS. First created as a title in 1925, in 1928 the rank became one of the first commissioned Nazi ranks and was bestowed upon those SA and SS officers... Also called the Third Position-the left wing of the NSDAP, named after the brothers Otto and Gregor Strasser. ... The seal of SA The   or SA (German for Storm division, usually translated as stormtroop(er)s ), functioned as a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP — the German Nazi party. ... Sturmbannführer Collar Patch Sturmbannführer was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party which was used by both the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Schutzstaffel (SS). ... Standard Sturmführer Collar Patch Sturmführer was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party which began as a title used by the Sturmabteilung in 1925 and became an actual SA rank in 1928. ... Early Pattern SS-Sturmhauptführer Patch SA-Sturmhauptführer Patch Sturmhauptführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank used by both the Sturmabteilung and the SS. It was the equivalent of a Hauptmann in the German Army. ... 1943 Stürmer issue: Satan Der Stürmer (literally, The Stormer) was a weekly Nazi newspaper published by Julius Streicher from 1923 to the end of World War II in 1945, with brief suspensions in circulation due to legal difficulties. ... Julius Streicher at the Nuremberg Trials. ...

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• Thule Gesellschaft – "Thule Society". The Nazis sought themes for their ideology in the occult and the Germanic and Nordic traditions.
• Totenkopf "death's head" - human-skull emblem worn by members of the SS, thought to symbolise loyalty unto death. The 3rd SS Division Totenkopf was in charge of guarding the concentration camps.
• Turnvereine – German and Austrian calisthenic leagues. They were identically dressed men and women making identical movements in mass performance.

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Germanic mysticism. ... The word occult comes from the Latin occultus (clandestine, hidden, secret), referring to knowledge of the hidden. In the medical sense it is used commonly to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e. ... Northern Europe is marked in dark blue Northern Europe is a name of the northern part of the European continent. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The   (German for Protective Squadron), abbreviated (Runic) or SS (Latin), was a large security and military organization of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) in Germany. ... This article concerns the military unit SS Division Totenkopf Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. ...

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• Überfremdung - (lit. "making something too foreign/strange", "hyperxenesis") the claim that a culture, language, or economy has been too heavily impacted by foreign influences.
• Übermensch – (lit. "higher human", or "over-human") an idea appropriated from the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and used by certain Nazis to describe the racially superior Germanic "Aryan" people.
  • Untermensch – (lit. "lower human" or "under-human") corollary of the term Übermensch, but reversed as a label given to peoples considered racially inferior to the "Aryans".
• Überwachungsdienst – surveillance service of the aA to protect the organization against Konjunkturritter (financial opportunists).
• unzuverlässige Elemente – unreliable societal elements (Jews, communists, homosexuals, etc.)
• U-Boot (abbreviated form of Unterseeboot, lit. "underwater boat") – submarine, anglicized U-Boat
• Umschlagplatz – (lit. "changing place") place of assembly. Kapos were told to collect Jews and bring them to this designated spot for pick up and transfer to the death trains.
• Uschla – arbitration committee of the NSDAP Party Directorate

Überfremdung (IPA ˌybɐˈfʀemduŋ) is the German term declaring that some object or characteristic has become too heavily (über meaning over or overly) influenced by foreign or strange (fremd meaning foreign or strange, as in Verfremdungseffekt) developments, whether the importation of foreign words into daily vocabulary, foreign cuisine, foreign... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) (IPA: ) was a German philosopher. ... Untermensch (German for under man, sub-man, sub-human; plural: Untermenschen) is a term from Nazi racial ideology used to describe inferior people, especially the masses from the East, that is Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, Soviet Bolshevists, and anyone else who was not a Nordic or Germanic Gentile. ... U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ...

V

• V-1 and V-2 – "Vergeltungswaffen" weapons of repayment, Missiles used to attack Britain and other countries controlled by the Allies.
• Vernichtungslager – death camps. This word was never used by the Nazis themselves.
• Volk – People, folk, or nation.
  • Volksgenosse – "Folk comrade."
  • Völkisch movement
• Völkischer Beobachter – the official Nazi Party newspaper
  • "Deutsche Arbeiterpolitik" – special labor section included in the above party paper.
  • Der Angriff – Nazi Party labor newspaper started by Joseph Goebbels
  • Der Erwerbslose – Nazi Party labor newspaper
  • Arbeitertum – Nazi Party labor newspaper
• Volksgerichtshof – literally "People's Court", a tribunal which condemned people accused of crimes against the state; verdicts were sometimes directed by Hitler himself.
• Volkswagen – "people's car". Conceived during the mid-1930s but reached its peak in the post war period.
• Volksgemeinschaft – a concept that means national solidarity; popular ethnic community; classless folk community
• Volkswirtschaft – a people's or national economy
• von – literally "of" or "from", an aristocratic appellation in German names, though it does not always signify that class.

The V-1 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1) was the first guided missile used in war and the forerunner of todays cruise missile. ... The Vergeltungswaffe 2 (V-2) (Reprisal weapon 2 Propaganda name given by Joseph Goebbels) , also known, in the Development Process as the A4 (Aggregat 1-4), was the first and till date has the most lethal combat record of any ballistic missile. ... Volk is a German (and Dutch) word meaning people or folk. It is commonly used as prefix in words such as Volksentscheid (plebiscite) or Völkerbund (League of Nations), or the car manufacturer Volkswagen (literally, peoples car). A number of völkisch movements were set up in Germany after... The völkisch movement is the German interpretation of the Populist movement, with a romantic focus on folklore and the organic. ... One of the last editions of the Völkischer Beobachter (April 20, 1945) hails Adolf Hitler as man of the century on the occasion of his 56th birthday, ten days before his suicide. ... Paul Joseph Goebbels (German pronunciation: IPA: ) (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the National Socialist regime from 1933 to 1945. ... The Volksgerichtshof (German for Peoples Court) was a court established by Hitler after the Reichstag fire to handle those accused of political criminal offences, such as treason. ... Volkswagen AG (ISIN: DE0007664005), or VW, is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany. ... Face The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... Volksgemeinschaft was an attempt by the German Nazi Party to establish a national community of unified mind, will and spirit. ... Von (generally in small case only as von) is a German preposition which approximately means of or from. ...

W

• Waffenamt -- arms inspection stamp or mark
• Wannsee Conference – a conference held on January 20, 1942 beside Lake Wannsee in Berlin in which it was decided and made official Nazi policy that the total annihilation of European Jews was the only rational means of a "Final Solution" to the Jewish Question.
• Wehrbauern – soldier-peasant settlements that were to be established in the East to act as a defensive shield against the inroads of Slav barbarianism.
• Wehrkraftzersetzung – a crime invented by the Nazis. It meant "negatively affecting the fighting forces". People who expressed doubts about Germany's chances of winning the war, or about Hitler's leadership were sometimes put to death for Wehrkraftzersetzung.
• Wehrmacht "Defence force" - the name of the armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945
• Weltanschauungskrieg – war of ideologies
• Winterhilfe – Winter Relief Program and annual fundraising drive by the Nazi Party to support impoverished German victims of the Great Depression and of World War II.
• Wirtschaftspolitische Abteilung – 1931 WPA; A NSDAP proposed program
• Wirtschaftliches Sofortprogramm – 1932 Economic Program; A NSDAP proposed program
• Wirtschaftliches Aufbauprogramm – 1932 Economic Reconstruction Plan; A NSDAP proposed program
• Wolfsangel "Wolf's hook" - emblem adopted by several military units of Nazi Germany
• Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair) – codename for Hitler's secret headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia (nowadays Kętrzyn, Poland).
• Wunderwaffe – "silver bullet", referring to weapon systems developed at the end of World War II (mostly V-2) that were supposed to turn around Germany's desperate situation on the battlefields.

Waffenamt (WaA) was the German Army Weapons Agency. ... The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on January 20, 1942. ... Wehrmacht   (armed forces, literally defence force(s)) was the name of the armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. ... Vertical alignment Horizontal alignment The Wolfsangel (German for wolfs hook) is a symbol which when used in the context of Nazi or Neo-Nazi organisations is described as looking like an Eihwaz rune but modified by an additional central stroke. ... Wolfs Lairs location in the old East Prussia (modern borders shown) Führerhauptquartier Wolfsschanze (English: Wolfs Lair, Polish: ) was the codename used for a major Eastern Front military headquarters of Adolf Hitler during World War II. One of the larger bunkers in Wolfsschanze complex. ... East Prussia (German: Ostpreu en; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Russian: Восточная Пруссия — Vostochnaya Prussiya) was a province of Kingdom of Prussia, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. ... Kętrzyn is a town in north-eastern Poland with 30,300 inhabitants (1995). ... Wunderwaffen is German for wonder weapon, and was a term assigned during World War II by the Nazi propaganda ministry to a few revolutionary superweapons. Some of the wunderwaffen have been incorrectly associated with the Vergeltungswaffen. ... German test launch. ...

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• Zeppelin – The rigid airships were a symbol of the German air technology.
• Zielstrebigkeit – determination
• Zusammenstöße (sing. Zusammenstoß) - gang fights; the brawls between the various party paramilitary groups
• Zwangswirtschaft – forced or compulsion economy
• Zwischenstaatliche Vertretertagungen – interstate meetings of representatives; DNSAP and NSDAP party congresses of the early years; first one held in Salzburg, Austria.
• Zyklon B Also spelled Cyclon B -- tradename of a cyanide-based insecticide used to kill over one million people in Nazi gas chambers.
• 25-point program – The Nazi Party platform and a codification of its ideology.
• 581 Abel autobiography – Weimar period Nazi Party membership data source

This is an article about Zeppelin airships. ... USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight, November 2, 1931 An airship or dirigible is a buoyant lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ... Zyklon B label — Note that “Gift” translates as “poison” Zyklon B was the tradename of a pesticide ultimately used by Nazi Germany in some Holocaust gas chambers. ... -1...

List of abbreviations and acronyms

See the glossary above for explanations of the terms.

• aA – NSDAP Agrarian Apparatus
• DAP – German Workers Party
• DFO – German Women's Order
• DNSAP – the Austrian German National Socialist Workers Party
• Gestapo – The Nazi secret police, short for Geheime Staatspolizei
• KdF – Strength through Joy
• LVL – agrarian agents for the NSDAP
• Nazi – Portmanteau for "National Socialist"
• NPEA - Nationalpolitsche Erziehungsanstalten, or National Political Educational Establishment
• NSBO – National Socialist Factory Cell Organization
• NSDAP – the National Socialist German Workers Party
• NSKK - Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrerkorps, or National Socialist Motor Corps
• NSF – NSDAP's Women's group
• NSV – National Socialist People's Welfare
• RAD - Reichsarbeitsdienst, or Reich Labor Service
• RBA – National Socialist Factory Cell Division
• RM – Reichsmark
• RZM - Reichzeugmeisterei, or National Material Control Office
• SA – Sturmabteilung, or NSDAP storm troopers
• SS – Schutzstaffel, or Hitler's body guard and extra NSDAP paramilitary group
• WaA - Waffenamt, arms inspection stamp or mark

This article or section includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... The Nazi swastika The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... The National Socialist Motor Corps (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrerkorps), also known as the National Socialist Drivers Corps, was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi party that existed between the years of 1931 and 1945. ... A 100 Reichsmark banknote from Germany of 1935 (http://www. ... The seal of SA The   or SA (German for Storm division, usually translated as stormtroop(er)s ), functioned as a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP — the German Nazi party. ... The   (German for Protective Squadron), abbreviated (Runic) or SS (Latin), was a large security and military organization of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) in Germany. ...

See also

• List of German expressions in English
• Glossary of German WWII military terms
• Glossary of the Weimar Republic
• LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii (book on the Nazi newspeak)
• Songs of the Third Reich
• Nazi mysticism
• Language of Nazi concentration camps

This is a list of German expressions used in English; some relatively common (e. ... This is a list of words, terms, concepts, and slogans that were used by the German military during World War II. Some have also been used in other times, and some are still in use today. ... These are terms, concepts and ideas that are useful to understanding the political situation in the Weimar Republic. ... LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii: Notizbuch eines Philologen (1947) is a book by Victor Klemperer, Professor of French at the University of Dresden. ... Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. ... Horst Wessels Song The official anthem of the Nazi Party was the Horst Wessel Lied. ... Nazi mysticism is a quasi-religious undercurrent of Nazism; it denotes the mixture of Nazism with occultism, esotericism, cryptohistory, and/or the paranormal — especially in the traditions of Germanic mysticism. ... Language of Nazi concentration camps refers to a common stratum created in various languages of inmates of Nazi concentration camps that described the notions unique to life in camps and served lingua franca. ...

References

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• Carsten, F. L. (1969). The Rise of Fascism Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (p. 83).
• Faye, Jean-Pierre (2004). Langages totalitaires, Hermann, Paris, ISBN 2-7056-6480-7 (French)
• Faye, Jean-Pierre (2003). Introduction aux langages totalitaires : Théorie et Transformations du récit, Hermann, Paris, ISBN 2-7056-6450-5 (French)
• Klemperer, Victor (1947). LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii
• Mitcham, Samuel W., Jr. Why Hitler? The Genesis of the Nazi Reich. Westport, CT: Praeger (p. 120).
• Neumann, Stan. La Langue ne ment pas, journal écrit sous le Troisième Reich (90' ARTE 2004) (French) (film documentary; short extract here)
• Payne, Stanley G. (1995). A History of Fascism 1914–1945. University of Wisconsin Press (pp 55, 180).
• Phillips, Peter (1969, 1970). The Tragedy of Nazi Germany. New York: Praeger Publishers (pp. 193, 179).
• Turner, Henry A. (1972). Nazism and the Third Reich. New York, NY: Quadrangle Books, NY Times Co. (p. 41).