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Parent topics

• First World War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• 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]
• National Socialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Socialism in National Socialism [r]: The role of various socialist ideas in the practical development of the Nazi movement ^[e]
• Sturmabteilung [r]: The Nazi "brownshirt" paramilitary organization, also known as the SA ^[e]

Subtopics

• Beer Hall Putsch [r]: The first "National Revolution" attempt of the Nazi Party on 8 November 1923; it failed, after street violence, and resulted in brief imprisonment for Adolf Hitler and others ^[e]
• Night of the Long Knives [r]: 30 June 1934 Nazi purge, personally led by Adolf Hitler of internal political opponents, primarily Ernst Roehm and the SA, but including various others, such as Gregor Strasser or Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, considered a risk or embarrassment to the new coalition with the Right ^[e]
  • Theodor Eicke [r]: Nazi Gruppenfuehrer; first commandant of Dachau Concentration Camp and became Inspector of Concentration Camps; with Michael Lippert, personally killed Ernst Roehm during Night of the Long Knives purge; commanded SS Totenkopf Division 1939-1943, when killed in a plane crash ^[e]
  • Michael Lippert [r]: (1897-1969) SS Assistant to Theodor Eicke, assisting him in killing Ernst Roehm; Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1936); severely wounded on Russian Front commanding SS-Volunteer Legion Flandern; first commander, as Standartenfuehrer of 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg ^[e]

Peer topics

Rivals

• Joseph Goebbels [r]: German propaganda minister under Adolf Hitler; Gauleiter of Berlin (1929 - 1945) ^[e]
• Hermann Goering [r]: prominent Nazi politician, effectively #2 in status for most of the war and Commander-in-Chief of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) during WW II. Sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) but committed suicide shortly before execution ^[e]
• Rudolf Hess [r]: Early Nazi Party member to whom Adolf Hitler dictated Mein Kampf; became Deputy Fuhrer but lost bureaucratic power; made an unauthorized flight to Great Britain in 1941 to seek a peace agreement but was interned; sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) and died in Spandau Prison ^[e]
• Heinrich Himmler [r]: German Nazi leader, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS) party elite; committed suicide after being captured at the end of World War II ^[e]
  • Schutzstaffel [r]: A Nazi German organization, the "SS". technically part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party but in many respects a "state within a state", its functions intermingled with government offices in a manner characteristic of Adolf Hitler's desire to keep final control. While it is best known for its security and genocidal operations, it also had major economic and regular military roles, a far growth from its original role as Hitler's personal bodyguard ^[e]
  • Reinhard Heydrich [r]: First commander of the RSHA of the SS, then Nazi Protector of Bohemia and Moravia until his assassination ^[e]

Other related topics

• Freikorps [r]: Any of a number of German volunteer paramilitary groups formed after World War I; many were absorbed into the Stahlhelm and then the Sturmabteilung (SA) ^[e]