Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

The period from 1933 to 1945 in German history in which Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party were in power. Under Hitler's rule, Germany was transformed into a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life were controlled by the state. Nazi Germany ceased to exist after the Allied Forces defeated the Wehrmacht in May 1945, thus ending World War II in Europe.

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Sicherheitsdienst (SD)

History; Nazi Germany

Security Service. The intelligence arm of the SS and later a main department of the RSHA.

Selektion

History; Nazi Germany

Selection of inmates for execution or slave labor at an extermination or concentration camp.

Obergruppenführer

History; Nazi Germany

Senior group leader. An SA and SS rank, equivalent to (US/UK) Lieutenant General.

Oberführer

History; Nazi Germany

Senior leader. An SA and SS rank, equivalent to Senior Colonel; originally called Gauführer, the SS or SA leader for a Gau.

Oberscharführer

History; Nazi Germany

Senior squad leader. An SA and SS rank, equivalent to Sergeant (SA) or Staff Sergeant (SS).

Siberiakentum

History; Nazi Germany

Siberiandom - term used in Generalplan Ost to describe the annihilation of the Polish people by their forceful assimilation into the native populations of Siberia in the intended event of their ...

Wunderwaffe

History; Nazi Germany

Silver bullet (literally, wonder weapons), referring to weapon systems developed at the end of World War II (such as the V-1 and the V-2) that were supposed to turn around Germany's desperate ...