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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Chef der Deutschen Polizei im Reichsministerium des Innern

History; Nazi Germany

Chief of the German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. Title conferred on Heinrich Himmler by Hitler in June 1936. Traditionally, law enforcement in Germany had been a state matter. In ...

Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD

History; Nazi Germany

Chief of the Security Police and SD or CSSD. Title first conferred on Reinhard Heydrich and after his death, Ernst Kaltenbrunner when chief of the Reich Main Security Office (which included the ...

Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete

History; Nazi Germany

General Government for the occupied Polish territories. Complete title for the Generalgouvernement from 1939 to 1941. Note that this name did not signify the existence of a military government.

Umschlagplatz

History; Nazi Germany

Changing place. Place of assembly. Jewish Police were told to collect Jews and bring them to this designated spot for pick up and transfer to the trains that would usually lead to the Death camps..

Umsiedlersonderzug

History; Nazi Germany

Re-settler special train. "Relocation" train ---actually a one-way transport by which Jews and others were moved to camps (labor camps, concentration camps, or death camps). The term appears on some ...

Rassenschande

History; Nazi Germany

Literally "racial shame". A Nazi term for sexual relations between an Aryan and a "non-Aryan" (including Jews, Slavs, and persons of African ancestry) which were banned by the Nuremberg laws.

Führerbunker

History; Nazi Germany

Shelter for the leader. Located about 8.2 metres beneath the garden of the old Reich Chancellery building at Wilhelmstraße 77, and about 120 metres north of Hitler's New Reich Chancellery building in ...