Articles by rt786

This was the Nazi term for western capitalist nations, especially the U.S. and Britain. A pretty healthy majority of the world still sees us that way, and with good reason:  capitalism is based on culture […]

These were individuals of partial Jewish ancestry. Some were treated as full-blown Jews, others as fellow Germans but with some restrictions. Fast forward to the modern day, and lets us apply this vague terminology to […]

This was Nazi “male bonding.” Such is the influence of the gay counterculture on mainstream America that guys can’t be friends anymore without everybody thinking they’re gay. There is no “male bonding” anymore.  It’s all […]

This is not a Nazi word per se (it’s a military term that means a boat or aircraft crew), but it’s just as “sexist” as postman or businessman are in English. In the present context, […]

“Alien morality” was a term the Nazis used for moral principles that don’t originate with your race or that clash with your moral compass and that of your peers. This is an uncomfortable idea, and […]

These were the “Nazified” Christians who were “de-Judaized.” They removed the Old Testament from their Bibles, nothing more. The widespread perception of the Nazis is that they were violently anti-religion and almost as anti-Christian as […]

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 […]