Nazi Germany/Organisations

The leaders of Nazi Germany created a large number of different organisations for the purpose of helping them in staying in power. The character of the most of them is typical for totalitarian regimes, although most countries do have armed forces of some sort.

• Military
  • OKH -- Oberkommando des Heeres (Army High Command)
  • Wehrmacht -- Armed Forces
  • Heer? -- Army
  • Luftwaffe -- Airforce
  • Kriegsmarine -- Navy

• Paramilitary organisations
  • SA -- Sturmabteilung?
  • SS -- Schutzstaffel
    • Waffen-SS

• State police -- Reich Central Security Office (RSHA - Reichssicherheitshauptamt) run by the SS
  • Order Police
  • Security Police
    • Gestapo -- Secret police (Geheime Staatspolizei)
    • Criminal Police
    • SD? -- Sicherheitsdienst?

• Political organsations
  • NSDAP -- National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Abeiterpartei)
  • Youth organisations
    • Hitler-Jugend? -- Hitler-youth (for boys and young men)
    • BDM? -- Bund Deutscher Maedel (for girls and young women)