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Triumph des Willens

History; Nazi Germany

Triumph of the Will—A famous Nazi propaganda film, directed by Leni Reifenstahl.

Truppführer

History; Nazi Germany

Troop leader. An SA and early SS rank, equivalent to Staff Sergeant.

Truppenamt

History; Nazi Germany

Troop Office. The cover name of the Reichswehr's clandestine General Staff, illegal under the Versailles Treaty.

Vorsicht Hochspannung Lebensgefahr

History; Nazi Germany

Typical warning message on signs affixed to electrified fences around concentration camps, labor camps, and death camps. Essentially: "watch out high voltage life-danger."

Untermensch

History; Nazi Germany

Under-human or lower human, subhuman. Label Nazis assigned to ethnographic groups they considered racially inferior to the "Aryans". Under Nazi racial theory and practice, such ...

Unzuverlässige Elemente

History; Nazi Germany

Unreliable societal elements (Jews, communists, homosexuals, etc.).

Mischling

History; Nazi Germany

Used in reference to an individual with alleged partial Jewish ancestry; some were treated as full-blooded Jews, other as "Aryans" but subject to various restrictions.