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Parent topics
- 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]
- Nazi Germany [r]: Add brief definition or description
- German National Socialist Workers' Party [r]: The specific German political and governing organization, also known as the NSDAP and (German) Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, that was based on the ideology of National Socialism. There were other Nazi parties, and there were other political organizations that followed the tenets of National Socialism. [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]
Subtopics
- Reichsicherheitshauptampt (RSHA) [r]: That part of the SS that contained both State and Party organizations considered part of Nazi Germany's security organization. For example, the Gestapo (RSHA Amt [office] IV) was a state organization with secret police responsibilities, while the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, RSHA Amt I) was a party organization with domestic and foreign intelligence duties. [e]
- Reinhard Heydrich [r]: First commander of the RSHA of the SS, then Nazi commander of Czechoslovakia until his assassination [e]
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner [r]: Second commander of the Reich Main Security Administration (RSHA) of the SS of Nazi Germany; executed for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Gestapo [r]: The secret political police force of Nazi Germany, a state rather than party organization, reporting both to the SS (Party) and Ministry of the Interior (State) [e]
- Heinrich Mueller [r]: Major Nazi war criminal who headed the Gestapo proper, never found or tried after the surrender of Germany. [e]
- Adolf Eichmann [r]: A key leader in the planning and operation of the Holocaust, who escaped Germany but was subsequently apprehended by Israeli agents in Argentina, and tried and executed by an Israeli court [e]
- Sicherheitsdienst (SD) [r]: The intelligence service of the Nazi SS, originally separated into foreign and domestic offices, part of the RSHA [e]
- Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (WVHA) [r]: The major department of the SS that had responsibilities for economic affairs, including concentration camps, which were considered slave labor resources as well as potential sources of confiscated goods. [e]
- Oswald Pohl [r]: Commander of the SS WVHA; executed after trial by one of the subsequent Nuremberg Military Tribunals [e]
- Waffen-SS [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Allegemeine-SS [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Abwehr [r]: German military counterintelligence and external intelligence in World War II, eventually absorbed into the Nazi party security apparatus other than purely military support [e]
- Wehrmacht [r]: The combined regular military forces (i.e., excluding the SS) of Nazi Germany, under the High Command of the Armed Forces (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht), including the Army (Heer), Navy (Kriegsmarine) and Air Force (Luftwaffe) [e]
- Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) [r]: In Nazi Germany, the High Command of the Armed Forces, or the military staff office in direct support of Adolf Hitler [e]
- Oberkommando der Heeres(OKH) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oberkommando der Luftwaffe(OKL) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oberkommando der Marine (OKM) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Adolf Hitler [r]: Dictator of Germany (1933-45) and first highly visible leader of the Nazi (National Socialist German Workers' Party). [e]
- 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]
