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| Allgemeine SS & Sepp Dietrich |
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| 1934,distinguished the ss members from the Armed SS and "death-head feds" Dietrich one of Hitlers body guards and senior ss members |
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| German Military Intelligence organization. Canaris leader in 1935 |
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| 1925, Hitlers bodyguard.Himmler was leader.Death's Head Units in charge of concentration camps |
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| Brown Shirts/Storm Section. Hitlers personal army. Roehm 1st SA leader, replaced by Lutze |
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| 1st leader of SA 1931.seemed power hungry so Hitler arrested him after his Minster of War&Chief Liaison officer were concerned |
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| Hitlers architect. 1942 minister of armaments. part planner of German war economy.charged guilty of war crimes in 1946 |
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| SS Oversturmbannfuehrer.In charge of Jew deportation. Organized Wannsee conference |
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| top German military officer during WWII. |
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| deputy in the NSDAP. sig. responsibility for Nuremberg laws. |
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| Lebensraum (Living Space) |
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| enlarge Germany within Europe vs. finding additional "living space" by adding colonies |
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| the German air force before and during WWII; headed by Hermann Goering; created in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles; introduced jet fighter aircraft |
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| the Nazi party headquarters in Munich |
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| 1938; a peace settlement to allow German annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; accepted by all parties to prevent an attack planned by Hitler |
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| “Nacht und Nebel” (Night and Fog) 1941 |
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| prisoners of the Germans; men who were mostly anti-Fascist resistance fighters from the countries occupied by the Nazis; their families were not notified about their imprisonment and assumed that they were dead. They were made to disappear into the Night and Fog. |
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| next to Hitler, the highest officeholders in the Party hierarchy; appointed by Hitler; directly responsible to him; included the most powerful coalition of political overlords in Nazi Germany; carried out tasks and missions; charged with insuring that Party policies were being executed; and insuring a continual flow of new leadership |
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| the political leader of a district; appointed by and was responsible to Hitler; were to insure the authority of the Nazi Party within the area, to coordinate activities of the Party and to enlarge the influence of the Party |
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| appointed by Hitler; directly subordinate to the Gauleiter; comprised of a single county; same powers as Gauleiter; constituted the core of the Party power and organization in cities |
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| had continuous contact with German people; lowest unit; comprised 40-60 households; charged with planning, disseminating, and developing a receptivity to the policies of the Nazi Party among the population in his area of responsibility; also to spy on the population |
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| Parteigenosse Helfer (Party Comrade) |
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| all Nazis except Hitler were to be addressed at party meetings and in political gatherings simply as Party Comrades; some thought that it brought them that much nearer to the Soviet Union, others saw it as a continuation of the deification process of Hitler |
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| formalized the unofficial and particular measures taken against Jews; demanded that Jews should be deprived of their rights as citizens |
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| Odessa (Organisation der SS Angehorige) |
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| formed to assist fleeing SS and other Nazis, to provide for their financial security, relocation and false identities; smuggled gold, gems and art |
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| Grand Admiral Erich Raeder |
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| German naval officer, urged the construction of subs(forbidden by the Versailles Treaty) and fast cruisers; supervised the invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940; differences with Hitler led to his dismissal |
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| German diplomat and foreign minister; negotiated the Anglo-German Naval Agreement; served as ambassador to Britain-advised Hitler that Britain could not aid Poland effectively; also negotiated the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact; found guilty at Nuremberg trials |
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| Rohm Purge (Night of the Long Knives) |
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| purge of Nazi leaders by Hitler; he ordered his SS guards to murder the organization’s leaders, including Ernst Rohm |
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| Erwin Rommel (The Desert Fox) |
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| one of Germany’s most respected military leaders in World War Two. Rommel’s nickname was the ‘Desert Fox’, a title given to him by the British |
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| Heinrich Himmler created the SD. At the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, the SD was declared a criminal organization and membership of it made its men liable to prosecution |
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| was second in importance to Heinrich Himmler in the Nazi SS organization and the principle planner of the Final Solution. Heydrich had insatiable greed for power and was a cold, calculating manipulator without human compassion |
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| SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, Minister of the Interior from 1943 to 1945 and organizer of the mass murder of Jews in the Third Reich |
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| "The most dangerous man in Europe". Joined the Austrian Nazi Party in 1930. Six feet 4 inches tall, Skorzeny was appointed as one of Hitler's personal bodyguard |
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decided in 1942 that he must try to help overthrow Hitler
He was promoted to Colonel and appointed Chief of Staff He brought a bomb concealed in a briefcase with him to a briefing at Hitler's Berghof residence, but circumstances came up so it was unsuccessful |
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| Der Sturmer & Julius Streicher |
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| Der Sturmer was a weekly Nazi newspaper published by Julius Streicher. Streicher educated the German people in hatred and incited them to the persecution and to the extermination of the Jewish race |
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| (The Swing Kids) Jazz and swing group of kids. Swing was viewed as a very dangerous foreign import that would contaminate the blood of the German Youth |
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| was the Nazi Party's daily newspaper. It reported almost constant Nazi successes |
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| a World War II Nazi plan for a clandestine resistance force which would carry out guerrilla attacks against occupying forces in the event that the Nazi regime came to an end |
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| a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany; became known for an anonymous leaflet campaign that called for active opposition to Hilter’s regime |
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| 8 Prinz Albrechtstrasse, Berlin |
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| The location of the administrative headquarters of the Secret State Police and the notorious Gestapo "house prison." |
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| Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler’s designated successor and the second man in the Third Reich |
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| Head of the Party Chancellery and private secretary of the Fuhrer, who by the end of World War II had become second only to Hitler himself in terms of real political power |
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| Union of Austria and Germany |
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| 3,000 armed supporters of the Nazi Party marched through Munich in an attempt to join up with Roehm's forces at the War Ministry. At Odensplatz they found the road blocked by the Munich police. Hitler was later arrested and put in jai |
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| July Bomb Plot/Operation Valkyrie/ Wolfsschanze |
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| The July Plot was a failed overthrow of the government and attempt to assassinate Hitler. It was initiated on July 20, 1944 by officers of the German Calvary and other bodies |
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| He began to study the experience of tanks during the war and was greatly influenced by the ideas of British military writers. Guiderian developed a radio-communication system that enabled communication between tank officers. Adolf Hitler appointed Guiderian to the new post of Chief of Mobile Troops |
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| an ancient German territorial and administrative division, originally comprising of several villages |
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| GESTAPO (Geheimes Staatspolizei) |
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| German for Secret State Police. The Gestapo was organized after the Nazis seized power in 1933 |
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| Karl was a Nazi general who tried to overthrow Hitler. He was executed in a prison by way of being hung from a meat hook with piano wire |
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