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Capos (or Kapos) were prisoners in the labor camps who led teams of other prisoners who, in turn, ran the day-to-day operation of the camps. They generally had a brutal personality and were often issued […]

These were Nazi calisthenics leagues in which huge groups of adult men and women exercised like soldiers in boot camp on a regular basis. Here in America, we frown on exercise. Kids don’t get exercise […]

This was a mythical conference of top Nazi officials held by Lake Wannsee in Berlin, in which they supposedly decided that death was the only viable way to implement the “Final Solution” of the Jews. […]

This is an acronym for “Deutsche Luft Hansa,” the German national airline that was founded in 1926. References usually make a point of saying that this Lufthansa is not the legal predecessor of the modern […]

The notion of a “higher man” was posed by Nietzsche, in the context of humanity evolving and improving by virtue of evolution and survival of the fittest.  Presumably, this is the process by which mankind […]

Most of the actual work in the concentration camps was done by Jewish prisoners – escorting them off trains, cutting their hair, removing their jewelry and gold fillings, and so forth. The “camp bordello” was […]

The “Fountain of Life” was an SS organization founded by Himmler that gave shelter to unwed mothers in spa-like nursing homes so they would give birth to their children instead of having an abortion. In […]

The Nazis had special groups to watch for and prosecute “financial opportunists.”  A large part of their anti-Semitism was a cultural paranoia that Germany could suffer the financial demise caused during World War I by […]

This was the term for an inmate who had lost the will to survive and had resigned themselves to death. On a broader context, this conjures images of the entire Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe. […]

This is a law passed by the Nazis in 1933 that designated all farms under 300 acres as “erbhofe” or hereditary farms that were guaranteed to remain in the family’s hands for perpetuity. The family […]