The following is a list of terms, which are closely connected with the totalitarian regime in
Nazi Germany (1933-1945). Many are German expressions, which are now used as words in English - a short english description is given here and the explanation can be found in the articles themselves.
- Anschluss -- annexation. In particular the annexation of Austria.
- Blitzkrieg -- lightning war - quick army invasions aided by tanks and airplanes
- Concentration camps -- originally detention centres later mass murder factories
- Coventrieren? -- Bombing out cities completely (the term was coined by Goebbels after the bombing of Coventry?)
- [Final solution]? -- final solution, euphemism to describe the total extinction of all Jews
- Fuhrer? (German: Führer) -- leader; often used as a label for Adolf Hitler
- Gestapo -- The Geheimstaatspolizei, the Nazi Secret Police
- Gleichschaltung -- total control and obedience of all aspects of society
- Holocaust -- the genocide commited by the Nazis
- Hakenkreuz? -- swastika?
- Lebensraum? -- space to live: a pretense for launching war on Eastern Europe.
- [Master race]? -- a politically charged term used by the Nazis to describe the so-called Aryan race
- Nazi -- National Socialist; from the National Socialist German Workers Party, or NSDAP
- [Nuremberg trials]? -- the trials of Nazi officials after the war for war crimes and crimes against humanity
- Reich -- empire
- Kristallnacht? -- Crystal night - a night in 1938 when the Nazi government organized widespread violence against Jewish businesses. So-called because the numerous broken windows made the streets look like they were covered with crystal.
- Third Reich -- Name used by Nazis to describe their regime.
- U-Boot -- (Untersee Boot) the infamous German submarines
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