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This is a list of words, terms, concepts and slogans of Nazi Germany used in the historiography covering the Nazi regime. Some words were coined by Adolf Hitler and other Nazi Party members. Other words and concepts were borrowed and appropriated, and other terms were already in use during the Weimar Republic.
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party , [ c ] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
Bürgerbräukeller – Re-founding the National Socialist German Workers' Party. 3,000 attended. On 9 March 1925 Hitler was banned from public speaking by Bavarian government. Most other German states followed suit. [11] 4 July: 1926: Weimar: 2nd National Socialist German Workers' Party Congress. 6–7,000 attended. First public display of SS ...
In Nazi Germany, the Nazi chants "Heil Hitler!" and "Sieg Heil!" were the formulas used by the regime: when meeting someone it was customary to greet with the words "Heil Hitler!", while "Sieg Heil!" was a verbal salute used at mass rallies. Specifically to the cry of an officer of the word Sieg (' victory '), the crowd responded with Heil ...
Hitler delivered most of the "Table Talk" monologues at the Wolfsschanze (above) [1] and at Werwolf. [2] "Hitler's Table Talk" (German: Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier, lit. 'Table Talks at the Führer's Headquarters') is the title given to a series of World War II monologues delivered by Adolf Hitler, which were transcribed from 1941 ...
The words to the "Horst Wessel Song" were published in September 1929 in the Nazi Party's Berlin newspaper, Der Angriff ('The Attack') which Joseph Goebbels owned and ran. Hitler Youth giving the Nazi salute; Germans were required by law to make the salute during the singing of the "Horst Wessel Song" [24]
In turn, an official German statement on 13 October declared that Chamberlain, by rejecting Hitler's peace offer, had deliberately chosen war. [5] This was Hitler's penultimate peace offer, the last coming in 1940 after the Fall of France.
The 1 September 1939 Reichstag speech is a speech made by Adolf Hitler at an Extraordinary Session of the German Reichstag on the day of the German invasion of Poland. The speech served as public declaration of war against Poland and thus of the commencement of World War II ( Germany did not submit a formal declaration of war to Poland).