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Vernichtungskrieg – War of extermination against Jews and Marxists, the war between Nazi Germany and the USSR. Vernichtungslager – death camps. This word was never used by the Nazis themselves. Volk – People, folk-community, nation, or ethnic group. It is extremely difficult to convey the full meaning of this word in English.
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
A chart depicting the Nuremberg Laws that were enacted in 1935. From 1933 to 1945, the Nazi regime ruled Germany and, at times, controlled almost all of Europe. During this time, Nazi Germany shifted from the post-World War I society which characterized the Weimar Republic and introduced an ideology of "biological racism" into the country's legal and justicial systems. [1]
Adolf Hitler's directives, or Führer directives (Führerbefehle), were instructions and strategic plans issued by Adolf Hitler himself over the course of World War II.The directives covered a wide range of subjects, from detailed direction of the Armed Forces' operations during World War II, to the governance of occupied territories and their populations.
Plans following defeat of the Soviet Union Operation Orient: Full text: 32a July 14, 1941 Use of resources following defeat of the Soviet Union Full text: 33 July 19, 1941 Continuation of the War in the East Two Panzer Groups were removed from Army Group Centre, depriving it of the armour which it would otherwise have used to attack Moscow. [8] 33a
' Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich '), [1] was a law that gave the German Cabinet – most importantly, the Chancellor – the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or Weimar President Paul von Hindenburg, leading to the rise of Nazi Germany. Critically, the Enabling Act allowed the Chancellor to ...
The most important German offensives were called "cases," as they were viewed as problems to be solved. Fallschirmjäger – paratroopers; German airborne troops. FdM – Führer der Minensuchboote; FdU – Führer der Unterseeboote; Commander-in-Chief of U-boats (used from World War I to 1939, when the title was reduced to "Regional Commander").
The Disciplinary and Penal Code (German: Lagerordnung), also known as the Punishment Catalogue (Strafkatalog), was a set of regulations for prisoners at Nazi concentration camps. The code was first written for Dachau concentration camp and became the uniform code at all Schutzstaffel (SS) concentration camps in the Nazi Germany on 1