| A | B |
|---|
| mittlestand | section of German society Nazis believed was the "backbone of the nation" |
| rural | Nazis believed this life was better than an urban, industrialised one |
| opposed | Nazis were ______________ to individual political liberty and equality |
| Volk | Community, classless society |
| Blut | basis of Aryan racial purity |
| Fuhrerprinzip | leadership principle |
| superior | In Nazi ideology men were _________________ to women |
| Volksgemeinshaft | National community - an ideological illusion in Nazi Germany |
| racial superiority | Nazis accepted this belief about their race and culture |
| Goebbels | Head of the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda |
| Gestapo | The Nazi secret police |
| Fulda | Declaration that allowed Catholics to join and support the Nazi party |
| Trade Unions | Banned by the Nazis in favour of the German Labor Front- DAF |
| Concentration | These camps were established in Dachau and Oranienburg - March 1933 |
| anti-Semitism | practice of discriminating against Jewish people |
| Concordat | The arrangment Hitler had with the Catholic Church to end any further opposition - 20th July 1933 |
| abolished | What happened to the state parliaments and the Reichsrat early in 1934 |
| People's Court | Established by the Nazis to deal with 'crimes against the state' - Apri 1934 |
| propaganda | used by the Nazis to persuade people to their point of view |
| Himmler | Head of the SS - Schutzstaffeln |
| intimidation | using threats to persuade |
| KdF | Strenght Through Joy program - recreation program including cheap holidays and entertainment for workers |
| Darre | Minister of Agriculture who promoted the idea that farmers were the lifeblood of the nation |
| Reich Food Estate | basis of Nazi agricultural policy- organising agriculture as a huge cartel |
| Scholtz-Klink | Head of the National Socialist Women's Organisation from 1934 |
| Nuremberg Laws | Anti-Semitic laws whereby Jews lost their German citizenship and political and civil rights |
| Olympics | This was happening when anti-Jewish signs were temporarily removed in 1936 |
| Krystallnacht | A violent pogrom against Jews carried out on 9 November 1938 |
| migration | step taken by many intellectuals under the Nazi regime |
| Zeigler | "approved" artist during the Nazi regime whose style was favoured by Hitler |
| Brecker | created ideal Germanic warrior figures (e.g. The Guardian) emphasising the perfect body and military strength |
| Niemoller | Luteran pastor and opponent of the Nazi regime - arrested in 1937 |
| Faulhaber | Cardinal who opposed the Nazi revisionists |
| Euthanasia | Program that attempted to eliminate over 70,000 mentally ill and handicapped people and was successfully opposed |
| Eidelweiss Pirates | a non-conformist youth group opposed to Hitler Youth movement |
| Schirach | Leader of the National Socialists' Student League and Riech Youth Leader from October 1931 |
| Norkus | One of 23 Hitler Youths who were killed in political violence 1930 - 1933 - a virtual saint for the movement |
| Jungmadel | The Nazi youth organisation for girls |
| White Rose | Youth group who spread anti-Nazi literature and writing anti-Hitler slogans around Munich |
| Scholl | Hans and Sophie - arrested and executed in 1943 for opposing the Nazi regime - members of the White Rose Movement |
| lebensraum | living space - belief that Germany needed more territory for the people to live a healthy life |
| rearmament | program of increasing arms to the country secretly 1933 - 1934; openly from 1935 |
| remilitarisation | foreign policy in the Rhineland 1936, defying the Versailles and Locano Treaties |
| alliances | organised between Germany, Italy and Japan 1936 - 1937 |
| Franco | Nazis helped this man win power in Spain 1936 - 1939 |
| Anschluss | jointng together of Austria and Germany March 1938 |
| Sudetenland | area on Czechoslovakian border absorbed by Germany in October 1939 |
| Russia | non-aggression pact signed with this country in August 1939 |
| Berchtesgaden | Hitler's Austrian retreat - where the Anschluss was signed 12 February 1938 |
| Munich | Agreement negotiated in the Fuhrer Building between Germany, France, Britain and Italy giving Sudetanland to Germany |
