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Parent topics
- Antisemitism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Genocide [r]: The deliberate killing or other destruction of a large group, membership in which is a broad criterion such as ethnicity or religion rather than individual acts [e]
- Nazi race and biological ideology [r]: The policies of Nazi Germany, based on the views of Adolf Hitler, which emphasized encouraging the breeding of what he considered to be a superior race and preventing the breeding, or actively killing, what he considered subhuman [e]
- Adolf Hitler [r]: (1889–1945) Politician in Germany; became 1921 Nazi Party leader, 1933 Reichskanzler (Chancellor), then 1934 as der Führer dictator before and during World War II. [e]
Subtopics
Policy
- Nuremberg Laws [r]: Nazi Germany's principal racial legislation were called the Nuremberg Laws [e]
- Wannsee Conference [r]: Nazi meeting in January 1942 to plan the killing of 11 million Jews of Europe, now known as the Holocaust. [e]
General organizations and leaders
- Chancellery of the Fuehrer [r]: Personal administrative secretariat of Adolf Hitler as Fuehrer; headed by Philip Bouhler; directed some secret projects such as the Nazi euthanasia program [e]
- Philip Bouhler [r]: (1899-1945) Business manager of early Nazi Party; Head of the Chancellery of the Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler's personal office; key manager of the Nazi euthanasia program; committed suicide at war's end [e]
- Chancellery of the Nazi Party [r]: Top-level secretariat of the Nazi Party; headed by Philip Bouhler [e]
- Chancellery of the Reich [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Reich Minister for the East and Occupied Territories [r]: Add brief definition or description
SS
- WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps [e]
- Inspector of Concentration Camps [r]: Amt (Office) "D" of the WVHA, with direct responsibility for the Nazi concentration camps, although some independent action was taken through the chain of command of RSHA personnel, primarily Gestapo, assigned to the camps [e]
- RSHA [r]: Nazi Germany's Reich Main Security Organization, a division of the SS, first headed by Reinhard Heydrich and then Ernst Kaltenbrunner; included the Gestapo and SD [e]
- Reinhard Heydrich [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner [r]: Second commander of the Reich Main Security Administration (RSHA) of the SS of Nazi Germany; executed for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- RuSHA [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gestapo [r]: The secret political police force of Nazi Germany, a state rather than party organization, reporting both to the SS (Party) and Ministry of the Interior (State) [e]
- SD [r]: Add brief definition or description
Facilities and field units
- Nazi euthanasia program [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Einsatzgruppe [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Concentration camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extermination camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
Personnel
Top leadership
RSHA
- Reinhard Heydrich [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner [r]: Second commander of the Reich Main Security Administration (RSHA) of the SS of Nazi Germany; executed for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
Gestapo
Einstatzgruppen
- Bruno Streckenbach [r]: Add brief definition or description Polish Einsatzgruppe I, attached to 14th Army
- Emanuel Schaefer [r]: Add brief definition or description 10th Army
- Hans Fischer [r]: Add brief definition or description 8th Army
- Lothar Beutel [r]: Add brief definition or description 3rd Army
- Ernst Damzog [r]: Add brief definition or description 4th Army
- Erich Naumann [r]: Add brief definition or description Posen area
- Udo von Woyrsch [r]: Add brief definition or description Polish Einsatzgruppe z.B.v
- Paul Blobel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Otto Ohlendorf [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Franz Walter Stahlecker [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Group North
- Artur Nebe [r]: Add brief definition or description Army Group Centre
- Otto Rasch [r]: Add brief definition or description
WVHA
HSSPF
- Odilo Globocnik [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Erich von Bach-Zelewski [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jurgen Stroop [r]: Add brief definition or description
Medical
Historians
- Hannah Arendt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yehuda Bauer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alan Bullock [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Christopher Browning [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lucy Dawidowicz [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ian Kershaw [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ron Rosenbaum [r]: Add brief definition or description
Legal
- International Control Commission [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Military Tribunal (Nurremberg) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nuremberg Military Tribunals [r]: Add brief definition or description
Resistance
- Avenue of the Righteous [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Raoul Wallenberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oscar Schindler [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Auschwitz-Monowitz Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- German Resistance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Royal Air Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Harris [r]: Add brief definition or description