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Parent topics
- Antisemitism [r]: In basic usage, hostility against, or persecution of, Jews, rather than ethnically Semitic people in general, or non-Semitic Jews [e]
- Genocide [r]: The deliberate killing or other destruction of a large group, membership in which is a broad criterion such as ethnicity or religion rather than individual acts [e]
- Nuremberg Laws [r]: Nazi Germany's principal racial legislation were called the Nuremberg Laws [e]
- Wannsee Conference [r]: Nazi meeting in January 1942 to plan the killing of 11 million Jews of Europe, now known as the Holocaust. [e]
- Adolf Hitler [r]: Dictator of Germany (1933-45) and first highly visible leader of the Nazi (National Socialist German Workers' Party). [e]
Subtopics
Organizations
- Reich Main Economic Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Reich Main Security Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Einsatzgruppen [r]: Add brief definition or description
Facilities
- T4 Program [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Concentration camp [r]: A camp where civilians, enemy aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes unwanted ethnic groups are detained and confined under extremely harsh conditions (including the murder of the detainees as during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany). [e]
- Death camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
Personnel
- 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]
- Oswald Pohl [r]: Commander of the SS WVHA; executed after trial by one of the subsequent Nuremberg Military Tribunals [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]
- Christian Wirths [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Odilo Globocnik [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Otto Ohlendorf [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Heinz Lammers [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paul Blobel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ernst Grawitz [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jurgen Stroop [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]
- Rudolf Hoss [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
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- International Control Commission [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Military Tribunal [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See International Military Tribunal (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Nuremberg Military Tribunals [r]: A set of twelve trials of officials of Nazi Germany, conducted by the United States in its zone of occupation of Germany, following the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
