2: German History Glossary
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36 terms
German | English |
|---|---|
 Bundesrat | Federal Council |
| Burgfriede | Political truce |
| Edelweiss | White alpine flower |
| Ersatzkaiser | Substitute emperor |
| Vaterlandspartei | Fatherland Party |
| Freikorps | Free Corps |
| Führerprinzip | Leadership principle |
| Gauleiter | Regional leader |
| Geheime Staats Polizei | Secret State police |
| Gleichschaltung | Co-ordination |
| Hakatisten | German Society for the Eastern Marches |
| Horst Wessel | Young Nazi stormtrooper killed in a fight with communists in 1930 |
| Junkers | Conservative landowning aristocracy |
| Kaiserreich | Imperial Germany |
| Kanzler | Chancellor |
| Kripo | Criminal police |
| Kulturkampf | Bismarck's anti-Catholic policy in 1870s |
| Landtag | State assembly |
| Lebensborn | Himmler's "fountain of life" |
| Mittelstand | Lower middle class |
| Nacht und Nebel | Hitler's decree to seize "dangerous people". 1941. |
| Alldeutscher Verband | Pan-German League |
| Rechtsstaat | State under rule of law |
| Flottenpolitik | Fleet politics |
| Rote Kapelle | Red Orchestra. USSR spy network. |
| Sturm Abteilung | SA |
| Sammlungspolitik | Policy of concentration |
| Siegfriede | Victory peace |
| Schutz Staffel | SS |
| Einsatzgruppen | SS death squads |
| Vernunftrepublikaner | Rational Republic. Those who wanted constitutional monarchy but supported democracy out of necessity |
| Volksgemeinschaft | People's community |
| Wehrmacht | German army |
| Weltpolitik | World policy |
| Zollverein | Customs union of German states |
| Machtergreifung | Seizure of power |
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