History WW2 German Vocab Flashcards
Adolf Hitler Schulen
Adolf Hitler schools where children were taught according to NSDAP policy
Allgemeine SS
Major body of SS. Black and silver uniformed soldiers- most feared in Germany
Anschluss
union of Austria and Germany
Arbeit Macht Frei
“Work makes you free”
Blitzkrieg
“Lightening war”
Einsatzkommandos
special killing units assigned to kill Jews and other enemies of Germany
Die Endlosung
The Final Solution
Euthanasia
Plan to kill the feeble minded, handicapped, or “useless” people
Der Fuehrer
Leader of Germany- Adolf Hitler
Fuehrerbunker
Bunker in Berlin where Hitler committed suicide
Geheime Staatspolizei(GESTAPO)
Nazi secret police
Ghetto
restricted area, usually the poorest part of a town where Jews were forced to live
Jude
German word for Jew
Kristallnacht
“Night of Broken Glass” Homes, Synagogues, and businesses were burned and destroyed
Lebensraum
living space
Liebstandarte SS
Hitlers personal bodyguards
Luftwaffe
German air force led by Herman Goering
NSDAP
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei
Propaganda
ideas, arguments, facts used to persuade to a particular viewpoint
Reichsfuehrer SS
Head of SS- Heinrich Himmler
Resettlement
word used to fool Jews that they were being moved to another area not to concentration camps
SA
storm troopers or “brown shirts”
Special treatment
code word for gassing
Uebermenschen
supermen- used to identify Germany as superior
