Key Terms: Nazi Policies and Constitution Flashcards
What is a prerogative state?
An exclusive right bestowed by a government or state and invested in an individual or group.
What is a polycratic regime?
Many centres of power.
Hitler created the biggest confusion in government.
What is cumulative radicalisation?
The way that the Nazi party became increasingly more extreme.
What were the Gauleiters?
A party leader of a regional branch of the Nazi party.
What was Fuherprinzip?
The fuher principal.
The fundamental basis of political authority in the governmental structure of the Third Reich.
What was working towards the Fuher?
Hitler was relatively unimportant in the daily running of Nazi Germany and didn’t play a role in the administration.
What was Gleichschaltung?
The standardisation of political, economic and social institutions as carried out by authoritarian states.
What is a Federal state?
A political party characterised by a union of partially self-governing provinces.
