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Parent topics
- Adolf Hitler [r]: Dictator of Germany (1933-45) and first highly visible leader of the Nazi (National Socialist German Workers' Party). [e]
- Fascism [r]: Political ideology of the far right that seeks national unity through patriotism, collectivism, subservience of the individual and opposition to liberalism. [e]
- National Socialism [r]: The totalitarian ideology of Adolph Hitler and the German Nazi Party. [e]
Subtopics
- Anton Drexler [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Otto Strassner [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gregor Strassner [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rudolf Hess [r]: Early Nazi Party member to whom Adolf Hitler dictated Mein Kampf; became Deputy Fuhrer but lost bureaucratic power; made an unauthorized flight to Great Britain in 1941 to seek a peace agreement but was interned; sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) and died in Spandau Prison [e]
- Ernst Rohm [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hermann Goering [r]: prominent Nazi politician, effectively #2 in status for most of the war and Commander-in-Chief of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) during WW II. Sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) but committed suicide shortly before execution [e]
- Heinrich Himmler [r]: German Nazi leader, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS) party elite, which included the WVHA that ran the concentration camps and much of the Nazi economy, the RSHA security apparatus including the Gestapo and SD, and the fanatical Waffen SS combat troops; committed suicide after being captured at the end of World War II [e]
- Martin Bormann [r]: German Nazi administrator, little-known to the public but became immensely powerful as the head of Adolf Hitler's personal office, essentially controlling access to him. Unaccounted-for at the end of the Second World War but tried and condemned in absentia by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg); now generally believed to have died during the final breakout from Hitler's bunker in Berlin [e]
Other related topics
- Weimar Republic [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Benito Mussolini [r]: (1883-1945) The Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 until 1943; as part of the Axis alliance, he led his country into war against France and Britain in 1940, and against the United States in 1941. [e]
- Germany [r]: Federal republic in central Europe (population c. 82.4 million; capital Berlin), with the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea to the north; Poland and the Czech Republic to the east; France, Switzerland and Austria to the south; and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west; founding member of the European Union. [e]
- World War II [r]: War between the Allies (most notably the UK, US and Soviet Union) and the Axis (principally Germany and Japan) 1939–1945. [e]
- The Holocaust [r]: Nazi Germany's systematic economic exploitation, followed by killing, of European Jews and others deemed racial and ideological enemies [e]
