chapter 17 section D Hitler and the rise of nazi germany

Schutzstaffel

SS: Hitler's personal security

Protection squadron

Schutzstaffel (SS)

Concentration camps

Detention centers for civilians considered enemies of the state

Final solution

Final solution of the Jewish question-murder of every single Jew-had begun-mass arresting, and trafficking of Jews to the concentration camps-mass killings occurred as well in the gas chambers

Reichstag

German Parliament

Gestapo

German secret police

Der Fuhrer

Hitler's title as leader of Nazi Germany

First Reich

Holy Roman Empire

Kristallnacht

"Night of Broken Glass"

Lebensraum

"living space"

Mein Kampf

'My Struggle' by hitler, later became the basic book of nazi goals and ideology, reflected obsession

Nuremburg Laws

1935 laws defining the status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood

Dawes Plan

A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S. This circular flow of money was a success.

Aryans

A race of people from ancient India and Pakistan, but whom Hitler believed became the first Germans. The Nazis called all Germans by this name.

Second Reich

Period in German history in which Bismarck formed a united Germany

Third Reich

The Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.

NAZI

The doctrines of nationalism, racial purity, anti-Communism, and the all-powerful role of the State. The National Socialist German Workers Party, otherwise known as the Nazi Party. Nazism was advocated by Adolf Hitler in Germany.

Weimar republic

Was the democratic government which ruled over Germany form 1919 to 1933. Was Germany's first democracy and it failed miserably. It had leaders such as Stresseman and Hindenburg.

Adolph Hitler

german leader of Nazi Party. 1933-1945. rose to power by promoting racist and national views