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| Totalitarian | A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. |
| The Schutzstaffel (SS) | Highly trained force that was loyal to Hitler. The SS had primary responsibility for destroying opposition and carrying out Nazi racial policies, led by Heinrich Himmler. |
| Gestapo | These were the state secret police, commanded by Reinhard Heydrich. |
| Propaganda | The presentation of information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view e.g. Joseph Goebbels and censorship. |
| Volksgemeinschaft | 'National Community'. People were to be loyal not to their own social group but to Germany and its leader. |
| The Swing Movement | A movement that demonstrated their discontent with the Nazi regime through their interest in banned music, especially American jazz and swing. |
| The Edelweiss Pirates | The name given to many small groups of young people across Germany. They wore the edelweiss flower as a symbol of resistance against the Nazis. |
| White Rose Movement | A group of university students who distributed anti-Nazi leaflets and urged the Germans not to support World War Two. |
| 'Gold Cross' | The medal women were awarded by the Nazi regime for having more than eight children. |
| Public Works Projects | Part of the Nazi Economic Policy aimed at getting the unemployed working again e.g. building of motorway projects |
| Strength Through Joy | A scheme that gave workers cheap theatre and cinema tickets, organised trips, sports events and holidays on luxury liners. |
| Beauty of Labour | This movement improved working conditions in factories and introduced washing facilities and canteens to workplaces. |
| 'Blood and Soil' | The belief that peasant farmers were the basis of Germany's master race. |
| Euthanasia | This is the act of putting someone to death or permitting the death of someone who is extremely sick or injured. |
| Anti-Semitism | Is defined as the hatred of the Jewish race. |
| Kristallnacht ('Night of the Broken Glass') | In November 1938, SS troopers went around villages and towns smashing and burning Jewish-owned businesses. |
| Gleichschaltung | This was a policy pursued by the Nazi regime, it means co-ordination. It involved the taking over of organisations and instiutions and putting Nazis in charge. |
| Confessional Church | A number of Protestant pastors, led by Martin Niemöller, who formed the Confessional Church to oppose Hitler's Reich Church. |
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