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Germany Key Concepts and Events (2)
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- 1TotalitarianA system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
- 2The Schutzstaffel (SS)Highly trained force that was loyal to Hitler. The SS had primary responsibility for destroying opposition and carrying out Nazi racial policies, led by Heinrich Himmler.
- 3GestapoThese were the state secret police, commanded by Reinhard Heydrich.
- 4PropagandaThe presentation of information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view e.g. Joseph Goebbels and censorship.
- 5Volksgemeinschaft'National Community'. People were to be loyal not to their own social group but to Germany and its leader.
- 6The Swing MovementA movement that demonstrated their discontent with the Nazi regime through their interest in banned music, especially American jazz and swing.
- 7The Edelweiss PiratesThe name given to many small groups of young people across Germany. They wore the edelweiss flower as a symbol of resistance against the Nazis.
- 8White Rose MovementA group of university students who distributed anti-Nazi leaflets and urged the Germans not to support World War Two.
- 9'Gold Cross'The medal women were awarded by the Nazi regime for having more than eight children.
- 10Public Works ProjectsPart of the Nazi Economic Policy aimed at getting the unemployed working again e.g. building of motorway projects
- 11Strength Through JoyA scheme that gave workers cheap theatre and cinema tickets, organised trips, sports events and holidays on luxury liners.
- 12Beauty of LabourThis movement improved working conditions in factories and introduced washing facilities and canteens to workplaces.
- 13'Blood and Soil'The belief that peasant farmers were the basis of Germany's master race.
- 14EuthanasiaThis is the act of putting someone to death or permitting the death of someone who is extremely sick or injured.
- 15Anti-SemitismIs defined as the hatred of the Jewish race.
- 16Kristallnacht ('Night of the Broken Glass')In November 1938, SS troopers went around villages and towns smashing and burning Jewish-owned businesses.
- 17GleichschaltungThis was a policy pursued by the Nazi regime, it means co-ordination. It involved the taking over of organisations and instiutions and putting Nazis in charge.
- 18Confessional ChurchA number of Protestant pastors, led by Martin Niemöller, who formed the Confessional Church to oppose Hitler's Reich Church.
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