Glossary of Nazi Germany

This is a list of words, terms, concepts and slogans that were specifically used in Nazi Germany.

Some words were coined by Adolf Hitler and other Nazi Party members. Other words and concepts were borrowed and appropriated, and other terms were already in use during the Weimar Republic. Finally, some are taken from Germany's cultural tradition.

Contents :

0–9

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

Further subdivided into:
  • 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

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

+ Reichsbund der Deutschen Beamten

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Yellow Star- a Jewish ID badge worn on the arm or chest

Z

List of abbreviations and acronyms

See the glossary above for full explanations of the terms.

See also

References

Notes
  1. Berenbaum, Michael (1 January 2014). "T4 Program". Britannica.com. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  2. Hitler, Mein Kampf, Zwei Bände in einem Band, S. 742.
  3. Heinrich August Winkler (2000). Der lange Weg nach Westen. Deutsche Geschichte vom "Dritten Reich" bis zur Wiedervereinigung, München: C.H. Beck, p. 4.
  4. Koonz, Claudia (2003). The Nazi Conscience. Cambridge, MA.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 73. ISBN 0-674-01842-7.
  5. Gellately (2007). Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe, p. 13.
  6. Waddington (2008). Hitler's Crusade: Bolshevism and the Myth of the International Jewish Conspiracy, p. 8.
  7. Fredrickson (2009). Racism: A Short History, p. 118
  8. Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: Journaille. Vokabular des Nationalsozialismus, p. 326 f.
  9. Friedlander, Henry (1995). The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia To The Final Solution. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. p. 81.
  10. Gerwarth, Robert (2011). Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-300-11575-8.
  11. See:Alexander Perry Biddiscombe, Werwolf!: The History of the National Socialist Guerrilla Movement, 1944-1946 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998), pp. 290-291.
  12. Kitchen (1994), Nazi Germany at War, pp. 33–34.
  13. Bernd Wagner, "Hitler, der Zweite Weltkrieg und die Choreographie des Untergangs," Geschichte und Gesellschaft, vol. xxvi (2000), no. 3, pp. 492–518.
Bibliography

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, February 09, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.