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Ausweiszwang

This was the legal, formal obligation to be able to identify oneself at all times. From 1939 onward, every German was required at all times to carry on their person identification papers – a passport, workbook, […]
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Autarkie

This was a national, geopolitical policy of economic self- sufficiency. The goal was to eliminate all imports by growing or manufacturing all economic necessities at home. The policy of “autarchy” began in the 1930s to […]
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Ersatz

“Substitute substances” were commonplace in wartime Germany, motivated by limited access to farmland and coal/oil/energy supplies. The Germans made gasoline from oil, developed synthetic wool and cotton, and a hundred other innovations. Everything had to […]
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Ernahrungsant

The “Food Supply Department” allocated food to Germany via wartime rationing. The same organization allocated food to Jews in the ghettos. “Ernahrungsopfer” was the donation and sacrifice of food for “self-sufficiency” and so Germany could “achieve […]
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Durchfuhren

This was a favorite word of Nazi bureaucrats, meaning to execute, to bring to an end, to follow through, enforce, complete. This notion would be anathema to any bureaucrat or functionary in any modern government […]
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Rasselos

Raceless: Not of pure race and having no race awareness or race self-consciousness. Whites are unique in the modern day of having absolutely no race awareness. It’s not something that is ever a part of […]
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Klokenklau

The “coal thief” was half-man and half-monster, with a beasty face, claws, wearing all black and with a bag of stolen coal slung over one shoulder. The klokenklau was featured in a widely distributed propaganda […]
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Judgefrange

The Jewish problem, to the Nazis, was a racial issue and a survival issue. They considered it a problem in Germany, in Europe, and in the whole world at large. Truth be told, nobody liked […]
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Kinderaktion

“Operation children” was the euthanasia program of 5000 severely disabled children in 1938-39. These days we do the same thing to millions of kids every day in every public school in America. We typically no […]
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Kennenkartwenzwang

This was the legal obligation of all Germans to obtain an official identification card. From 1939, Jews were identified on their ID cards and in their personnel files at the local police station. Germany was […]