nazi germany Flashcards
(22 cards)
reichstag fire decree
feb 1933 reichstag building burnt down and blamed communists
enabling act
1933 march enabled hitler to ban all other political parties
night of the longknives
1934, hitler ordered murders of suspected opposing leadership
schutzstaffel
protection squadron part of SA
totaliarianism
government that is centralized and dictatorial
sa
paramilitray group organised by ex army veterans
gestapo
seceret police force to find and arrest nazi enemies
eugenics
class teaching the rearrangement of a populations genetics
indoctrination
forcing people to believe a concept without thought or criticism
youth groups
groups that involved activities to indoctrinate kids
league of young maidens
girls youth group
hitler youth
boys youth group
roles of women and men
women to be housewives and men to be soldiers
anti-semitism
anti jewish or hate to jewish community
nuremburg laws
laws passed to identify jewish people by having at least 3 jewish grandparent
kristallnacht
1938 nov mass killing of jewish community attacking businesses and homes
persecution of jews
through genocide, execution from social life, had to wear star of david
hindenburg’s death
august 1934
fuher
mix of president and chancellor
undesirables
homosexual, jews, communists
propaganda
newspapers, radio, cinema
gleichschaltung
bringing germany to life