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Germany and WW2 Key Concepts and Events
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- 1Dresden Bombing 1945The worst bombing event from the Allies occurred in Dresden, February 1945, which killed between 35,000-150,000 people in two days.
- 2Clemens GalenBishop Galen's popular protest led to a temporary conclusion to the Nazi euthanasia programme in 1941.
- 3Martin NiemöllerFounder of the Confessional Church, which opposed and spoke out against the Reich Church.
- 4Dietrich BonhoefferA German Protestant pastor who helped the Jewish population during World War Two and preached against the Nazi regime.
- 5July 1944 Bomb PlotColonel Claus von Stauffenburg made an attempt to assassinate Hitler at his headquarters in east Berlin, July 1944.
- 6EinsatzgruppenA special unit of the SS that carried out many executions in concentration camps.
- 7'Final Solution'A programme that involved the systematic killing of Jews in Germany and German-occupied territory.
- 8Volkssturm (People's Storm)A unit of untrained and inexperienced teenagers and old men established to fight the invading Allied forces.
- 9The Basic LawThe Basic Law was to protect democracy and to stop aggressive minority parties, like the Nazis, from causing problems in the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 10Konrad AdenauerThe former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949-1963.
- 11European Steel and Coal CommunityFormed between Germany and France in 1950 the European Steel and Coal Community was the first step towards the European Union.
- 12Walter UlbrichtThe chancellor of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) after World War Two. Ulbricht was a deeply committed communist.
- 13PurgeThis is an abrupt or violent removal of a group of people.
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