Officials in the state apparatus were called “civil servants.” This smacks of close party affiliation and less “office steward.” In modern-day America, the bemtens have enormous power. Political appointees decide which laws to apply, on […]
Even Nazi Germany was run by a vast bureaucracy of “office stewards.” Generally, like most Germans, they were industrious, loyal, competent and hard-working individuals. Amtswalter was an archaic, old-country word back then, harking back to […]
This was an agreement by Germany, Italy, and Japan to oppose the “Communist International” of the Soviet Union (and to a lesser extent China). The Nazis were anti-communist from the very beginning, and the vast […]
The Germans’ awesome “lightning war,” made advances with stunning speed, using tanks and airplanes to support ground troops. Many analogies since then use blitzkrieg to imply a sudden, violent assault on the unsuspecting by a […]
The Nazi slogan “battle for work” was a propaganda term (one of Hitler’s favorites) for the sum of all measures required for work creation: Management Materials Manpower Engineering Hitler liked the military/activist sound of “battle […]
One of Hitler’s favorite expressions was the “battle for work,” indicating the totality of effort needed by the German people to compete in a global marketplace. Unemployment in Germany was 0% from 1937 until the […]
This term “academic” was politically incorrect to the humble Nazis. It was applied to any profession that required university study. The Nazis were very sensitive to such Bolshevik labels that implied that any German was […]
This “ancestral heritage” think tank created b Himmler to research the origins of the Aryan race has received no end of ridicule and scorn from the liberal intelligentsia. Himmler would be quite proud to know […]
This is the Nazi practice of canceling a marriage loan through the production of offspring. Even the Nazis found this morally ironic – “ab” means off, and “kind” means child. The Nazis adopted this policy, […]
This was the cyanide-based insecticide used in the Nazi gas chambers. Jews, Gypsies, communists, and POWs claim Zyklon-B killed over one million people. These groups now claim over 11 million people were killed in the […]