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A film camera ran behind the red-robed Roland Freisler so that Hitler could view the proceedings, and to provide footage for newsreels and a documentary entitled Traitors Before the People's Court. [10] Intended to be used in The German Weekly Review, it was not shown at the time and turned out to be the last documentary made for the newsreel. [10]
The Third Reich, [l] meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800/962–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918).
Nazi racial views regarded the "Judeo-Bolshevist" Soviet state as a criminal institution in need of destruction and a barbaric place so culturally devoid of "European" character as to make it irreemable for the Third Reich. [10] The central objective of Neuordnung was to assure absolute continental hegemony for Nazi Germany following the war. [11]
Harlan was the only major movie director of the Third Reich to stand trial for crimes against humanity. After three trials, he was given a light sentence because he convinced the courts that the antisemitic content of the film had been dictated by Goebbels and that Harlan had worked to moderate the antisemitism.
It subscribed to pseudo-scientific theories of a racial hierarchy, [10] identifying ethnic Germans as part of what the Nazis regarded as an Aryan or Nordic master race. [11] Nazism sought to overcome social divisions and create a homogeneous German society based on racial purity which represented a people's community ( Volksgemeinschaft ).
While theoretically outside the boundaries of the Reich proper, the General Government was considered part of "Greater Germany" by Nazi officials as an "autonomous" region (i.e., not directly subordinated to the Berlin government). [8] It was not a protectorate, but a colony, outside the Reich and its law.
Patton's Spaceship by John Barnes (part of The Timeline Wars series (1997)) The works of Peter G. Tsouras: Hitler Triumphant: Alternate Decisions of World War II (1999) Third Reich Victorious: Alternate Decisions of World War II (2002) Rising Sun Victorious: The Alternative History of How the Japanese Won the Pacific War (2007)
This was a clear violation of the Enabling Act. While Article 2 of the Enabling Act allowed the government to pass laws that deviated from the Constitution, it explicitly protected the existence of the Reichstag and Reichsrat. [33] Law Concerning the Head of State of the German Reich.