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Parent topics
- Fascism [r]: Political ideology of the far right that seeks national unity through patriotism, collectivism, subservience of the individual and opposition to liberalism. [e]
- Adolf Hitler [r]: Dictator of Germany (1933-45) and first highly visible leader of the Nazi (National Socialist German Workers' Party). [e]
- Totalitarianism [r]: Any political system, or ideologies that support such a system, in which a centralized political authority controls every aspects of life. [e]
- Tripartite Pact [r]: The treaty Tripartite Pact of September 27, 1940, created the Second World War Axis of Germany, Japan, and Italy. [e]
Subtopics
- Operation Barbarossa [r]: The German invasion of the Soviet Union, beginning on June 22, 1941 [e]
- Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Holocaust [r]: Nazi Germany's systematic economic exploitation, followed by killing, of European Jews and others deemed racial and ideological enemies [e]
Leadership
- Central, not occupation; a few subordinates of immense poery
- Rudolf Hess [r]: Early Nazi Party member to whom Adolf Hitler dictated Mein Kampf; became Deputy Fuhrer but lost bureaucratic power; made an unauthorized flight to Great Britain in 1941 to seek a peace agreement but was interned; sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) and died in Spandau Prison [e]
- Hermann Goering [r]: prominent Nazi politician, effectively #2 in status for most of the war and Commander-in-Chief of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) during WW II. Sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) but committed suicide shortly before execution [e]
- Josef Goebbels [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Heinrich Himmler [r]: German Nazi leader, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS) party elite, which included the WVHA that ran the concentration camps and much of the Nazi economy, the RSHA security apparatus including the Gestapo and SD, and the fanatical Waffen SS combat troops; committed suicide after being captured at the end of World War II [e]
- Reinhard Heydrich [r]: First commander of the RSHA of the SS, then Nazi commander of Czechoslovakia until his assassination [e]
- Martin Bormann [r]: German Nazi administrator, little-known to the public but became immensely powerful as the head of Adolf Hitler's personal office, essentially controlling access to him. Unaccounted-for at the end of the Second World War but tried and condemned in absentia by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg); now generally believed to have died during the final breakout from Hitler's bunker in Berlin [e]
- Albert Speer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joachim von Ribbentrop [r]: Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany, of lessened importance when the extension of national policies became military rather than diplomatic; tried and executed, principally for planning war, by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner [r]: Second commander of the Reich Main Security Administration (RSHA) of the SS of Nazi Germany; executed for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Alfred Rosenberg [r]: Early Nazi Party member and ideologist, later Minister for the occupied territories on the Eastern Front; tried and executed by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
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- Wilhelm Frick [r]: Minister of the Interior of Nazi Germany; titular authority over the police apparatus that was actually controlled by Heinrich Himmler; executed by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Walther Funk [r]: President of the Nazi Reichsbank from 1939, after replacing Hjalmar Schacht, taking a supportive but not primary role in confiscation of assets from Jews and from conquered countries, and sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Fritz Sauckel [r]: Add brief definition or description
NDSAP organizations
- How do we handle the many acronyms (SS, SD der SS, RSHA, Amt 4(b), etc.?), informal terms (e.g., "Brownshirts"), and reorganizations?
- At this point, I'm going to use Nazi rather than NDSAP in organizational titles
- Sturmabteilung [r]: The Nazi "brownshirt" paramilitary organization, also known as the SA [e]
- Schutzstaffel [r]: A Nazi German organization, the "SS". technically part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party but in many respects a "state within a state", its functions intermingled with government offices in a manner characteristic of Adolf Hitler's desire to keep final control. While it is best known for its security and genocidal operations, it also had major economic and regular military roles, a far growth from its original role as Hitler's personal bodyguard [e]
- Nazi Party regional organization [r]: Add brief definition or description
Military
- Oberkommando der Wehrmacht [r]: In Nazi Germany, the High Command of the Armed Forces, or the military staff office in direct support of Adolf Hitler [e]
- Oberkommando das Heer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oberkommando der Luftwaffe [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oberkommando der Marine [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Gregor Strasser [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Otto Strasser [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Erich von Ludendorff [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anton Drexler [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paul von Hindenburg [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ernst Roehm [r]: Add brief definition or description
