| A | B |
| Adolf | First name of Hitler |
| Braunau | Town where Hitler was born |
| Austria | Country where Hitler was born |
| Vienna | Where Hitler went at 19 to study art |
| Postcards | Painted by Hitler to make money while in Vienna |
| two | number of times Hitler was wounded |
| six | number of medals won by Hitler for bravery |
| Iron Cross | medal won by Hitler in WWI |
| corporal | rank of Hitler during WWI |
| Mein Kampf | Book written by Hitler while in prison |
| Fuhrer | Title given to Hitler to represent a single strong leader with great power |
| Liebensraum | German word for living space |
| Gauleiters | District Leaders - in charge of an area or province and reported directly to the leader of the Nazi Party |
| Kreisleiters | Area Leaders - gave orders to the local group leaders |
| Zellenleites | Cell Leaders - in charge of a town or suburb |
| Blockleiters | Block Leaders - in charge of a block or house |
| Reichstag | Gernan Parliament |
| Nuremberg Laws | laws set out by Hitler in 1935 defining what Jews could and could not do in German society |
| Kristallnacht | Night of 1938 when synagogues were attacked by the SS and windows broken |
| Aryan | Nazi believed these were the only racially pure people |
| genocide | the deliberate and planned mass murder of a group of people |
| DAF | Deutsche Arbeitsfront - German Labour Front - Nazi organisation that replaced trade unions |
| DAP | Deutsche Demokratische Partei - German Democratic Party |
| DFW | Deutsches Frauenwerk - German Women's Work |
| dictatorship | rule by a powerful individual |
| DNVP | Deutschnationale Volkspartei - German National People's Party - conservative party |
| DVP | Deutsche Volkspartie - German People's Party - moderate conservative party |
| einsatzgruppen | SS Special Action Group - responsible for brutal killing of thousands of civilians in occupied territories |
| eugenics | science of genetically improving a race |
| euthenasia | mercy killing - used by the Nazis to justify killing the weak and ill |
| facsism | extreme national political movement |
| friekorps | right-wing group of ex-soldiers; volunteer army |
| ghetto | section of a city where Jews were forced to live under the Nazis |
| gleichschaltung | co-ordination: Nazi organisation to bring everything under state control |
| hegemony | dominance |
| HJ | Hitler Jugend - Hitler Youth organisation |
| KDF | Kraft durch Freude - strength through joy - Nazi leisure organisation |
| militarism | admiration for the army and its values |
| NSDAP | Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - National Socialist German Workers Party - Nazi Party |
| pacification | put down or subdue by force |
| plebicite | referendum |
| pogrom | massacre of helpless people - usually Jews |
| propaganda | spreading political ideas, usually distorting reality |
| purge | move to cleanse or remove unwanted elements |
| SA | Sturm-Abteilung - storm troopers - Nazi paramilitary organisation |
| SS | Schutzstaffel - Protective Sqads - originally Hitler's bodyguard; later the Nazi Police Force |
| volksgemeinschaft | people's community - Nazi ideal community |
| volkisch | nationalist; concerned with Germanic identity |
| enabling law | law used to eliminate any opposition |