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Erich Honecker
Erich Honecker , 1912-94, East German political leader. From a Communist family, Honecker was imprisoned by the Nazis for 10 years for party activities. After the war he joined Walter Ulbricht's Socialist Unity (Communist) party and rose in the East German party bureaucracy. He joined the secretaria... Read more
Julius Streicher
Julius Streicher , 1885-1946, German National Socialist (Nazi) leader. An early party member, originally a schoolteacher, he aired his sadistic and anti-Semitic mania in his periodical, Der Stürmer. Streicher was also the host of the yearly Nazi party congresses at Nuremberg and, after 1933, ... Read more
Labour party
Labour party British political party, one of the two dominant parties in Great Britain since World War I. Origins The Labour party was founded in 1900 after several generations of preparatory trade union politics made possible by the Reform Bills of 1867 and 1884, which enfranchised urban... Read more
Conservative party
Conservative party British political party, formally the Conservative and Unionist party and a continuation of the historic Tory party. The Rise of the Conservative Party The name "conservative" was used by George Canning as early as 1824 and was first popularized by John Wilson Cro... Read more
Communist party
Communist party in the United States, political party that espoused the Marxist-Leninist principles of communism . Origins The first Communist parties in the United States were founded in 1919 by dissident factions of the Socialist party. The larger, which called itself the Communist par... Read more
Eduard Bernstein
Eduard Bernstein , 1850-1932, German socialist. From 1872 he was actively associated with the Social Democratic party. In 1878, antisocialist legislation sent him into exile. In 1898, he aroused controversy among German socialists by critiquing Marxism, denying that the collapse of capitalism was im... Read more
Social Democratic party
Social Democratic party (SDP), former British political party founded in 1981 to offer a centrist alternative to the more extreme positions of the then ruling Conservative party on the right and the opposition Labour party on the left. The SDP began with the defection of 12 Labour members of Pa... Read more
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler , 1900-1945, German Nazi leader. An early member of the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) party, Himmler took part in Adolf Hitler's "beer-hall putsch" of 1923, and in 1929 Hitler appointed him head of the SS, or Schutzstaffel, the party's black-shirted elite corps. ... Read more
Nazi
Nazi A member of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or National Socialist German Workers' Party. It was founded in 1919 as the German Workers' Party by a Munich locksmith, Anton Drexler, adopted its new name in 1920, and was taken over by HITLER in 1921. The Nazis dominated Germany... Read more
Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrats British political party created in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal party with the Social Democratic party ; the party was initially called the Social and Liberal Democratic party. The Social Democratic party, which was formed in 1981 by politically centrist members of the La... Read more

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Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History NAZI-SOVIET PACT OF 1939 The Nazi-Soviet Pact is the name given to...became involved in a war with a third party. They further agreed not to participate...committed aggression against a third party, was missing. The agreement was for...
Nazi
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II Nazi, acronym formed from NAtionalsoZIalist , the first word of the official title of Hitler's party, the Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party), which was founded in 1919. See Germany , 3.
Reinhard Heydrich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the leadership." Another Nazi, Wilhelm Hoettl, said...the scandal, he joined the Nazi party, which was increasingly gaining...on citizens who resisted the Nazis and were perceived as a threat to the Nazi party. When it began, the...
Schindler, Oskar
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II...from the wrath of the Nazi Party and preserved generations...x2013; 1945) and his Nazi Party began their rise...Germans joined the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party...out of any love for the Nazis, but because it made...
War Crimes
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...belligerent states or parties. War crimes may be committed...prosecuted a number of leading Nazi officials at the nuremberg...During the war, the Nazis had invaded and occupied...for the Third Reich, Nazi officials could not claim...atrocities committed by the Nazi regime in World War ...
National Socialism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...its well-organized party structure. From Communism...he took the uniformed party militia. The mass of...Heinrich Himmler . The party had its own salute...demonstrations of the Nazis attracted many followers...rule, see Germany . Nazi Rule After ousting the...challenge him. Loyal ...
ghettos
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...disparate aspects of Nazi doctrine. Of the hostility of the inner core of Nazis to the Jews and of their...Europe.’ Nazi policy towards the Jews...to unite the state and party police. Heydrich's...mitigate the harshness of Nazi rule and save at least...in the period when the ...
Hitler, Adolf
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...National Socialist (Nazi) German Workers' party was based on the idea...Workers' party. The Nazis advocated the uniting...forces. In 1923 the Nazis tried to capitalize on...8 Hitler called for a Nazi revolution. The beer...1928, Hitler and the Nazis had little political...
Alois Brunner
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...born 1912) helped engineer the Nazi destruction of European Jews, sending...served Adolf Eichmann in organizing the Nazi destruction of European Jews. Eichmann...April 8, 1912, Brunner joined the Nazi Party at age 19 and the SS at 26 (1938...
Adolf Hitler
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...veterans in the German Workers' party. The Nazi Party In 1920 the German Workers...Socialist German Workers, or Nazi, party; in 1921 it was reorganized...in a Munich beer hall by the Nazi militia, or storm troopers...troops (June, 1932). When the Nazis were elected the largest ...

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Nazi
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...fascist belief in a one party state. It claimed that...PEACE SETTLEMENT . The Nazi's declared their views...Friedrich Nietzsche. Nazi beliefs were given dogmatic...The success of the Nazis in dominating completely...REICH established. Rival parties were banned, and the...CONCENTRATION CAMPS ...
Nazi Party (NSDAP/ Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei)
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Nazi Party (NSDAP/ Nationalsozialistische...The success of the Nazi Party, as opposed...July 1933 all other parties had been disbanded...exercised to encourage Nazi membership, so that...Nevertheless, the party's true popularity...
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Nazi-Soviet Pact (23 August 1939...and pledged neutrality by either party if the other were attacked by a third party. Each signatory promised not to...or indirectly aimed at the other party”. The pact also contained...
Nazi architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Nazi architecture. Architecture of the...National Socialist German Workers' Party had a pluralistic attitude to architecture...to local vernacular traditions; Party schools and buildings around ‘Party Forums’, or squares...
Der Ewige Jude
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...ewige Jude was an exemplary moment in the history of Nazi cinema. A dutiful Nazi Party functionary, Hippler was unrestrained by considerations...technique but in its brutal service to the cause of Nazi racism. Hippler, after reading law and sociology...
degenerate art
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...correspond to the ideology of the Nazi party. Such art, which included...throughout the period when the Nazis ruled the country, 1933...Art Exhibition’ of Nazi-approved art; this was thoroughly...works were sold at auction, Nazi officials helped themselves...
Göring, Matthias Heinrich (1879-1945)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...that he was an elder cousin of Nazi boss Hermann G ö ring...institution of psychotherapy against Nazi medical activists and university...xF6; ring (who joined the Nazi party in 1933) preached against...espionage and was executed by the Nazis in 1943. The legacy for psychoanalysts...
Deutsches Insitut für Psychologische Forschung und Psychotherapie (Göring Institute)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...the control of university psychiatrists and Nazi health activists, as well as the aim of the Nazi party and government to destroy the "Jewish" German...New German Psychotherapy) in line with Nazi ideals and Germanic tradition, the so-called...
Rosenberg, Alfred
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...d. 16 Oct. 1946). Chief Nazi ideologist A refugee of German...from Estonia, he joined the Nazi Party in 1919 and became editor of...his attempt to systematize a Nazi ideology, he published Der...the cultural policies of the Nazis. In 1934 he was officially...
Riefenstahl, Leni
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...expert to the National Socialist Party" by Hitler, 1933; detained...Allied Forces on charges of pro-Nazi activity, 1945–...festival picketed by anti-Nazi groups), 1974; was the subject...Courtade, Histoire du cinema Nazi, Paris, 1972. Fanck, Arnold...

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Nazis' rise to power provides lasting gift
Newspaper article from: Columbia Daily Tribune; 3/8/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Germany during the time the Nazis came to power. Her father...heritage. People look at neo-Nazi organizations and think their...hateful. In the beginning, the Nazi party in Germany attracted scant...too. Those in power used the Nazis to voice unpopular and extreme...populace to support ...
Masking Nazi Violence in the Beautiful Landscape of the Obersalzberg
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...what Walter Benjamin has termed the Nazi "aesthetization of politics," one that, unlike the spectacular nature of Nazi party rallies defined so well by Leni Riefenstahl...ultimately justify-the violence of the Nazi regime.4 In what follows I first...
Nazi Christians.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 8/10/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...them down. When the Nazis seized power in 1933...German Protestants the Nazi regime signaled a revival...pastors, became keen Nazi party members and officials...Protestant churches aim the Nazi state deteriorated and...never appealed to the Nazis. (Hitler said on a...
Swiss Sold Nazis Info On Allies: New Documents; Declassified papers
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week; 9/27/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...clearly collaborated with the Nazis, taking in vast amounts of...were taken from the victims of Nazi aggression." A spokesman for...percent of the gold stolen by the Nazis and deposited in Swiss banks...archives to an impartial third party in order to tell the truth after...distribution of 5.5 ...
Neo-Nazis are heard again in France
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 8/13/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...tombstones were scrawled with Nazi symbols and anti-Semitic and...were part of a wave of neo-Nazi acts that have swept France...regular death threats from neo-Nazis in the region.Neo-Nazism...government, said one or two neo-Nazi rallies were held in the area...according to many commentators. The ...
Nazis rally racism in Valley Forge
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Tribune, The; 10/1/2004; ; 477 words ; ...by a variety of anti-Nazi demonstrators who greeted them with chants of "Nazis out" and "Death to Nazis." Another organization, The Progressive Labor Party, based in of Brooklyn...broke, Hitler fell, Nazi scum, go to hell." Also in force against the Nazis were the black-clothing...
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Semitic propaganda as a tool of Nazi leaders to bind together the party faithful. Anti-Semitism had...processes or the motivations of Nazi perpetrators in German-occupied...Herf shows, as the "core Nazi narrative of the coming conflict...51). In the eyes of the Nazis, world Jewry ...
As neo-Nazis riot, Germany still outlaws the swastika
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/4/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...the neighborhood neo-Nazi group, rolled up the...by images of resurgent Nazis and right-wing extremism...illegal to display a Nazi flag. Sending a fax...anticonstitutional" symbols and parties -- a law that was also...West German Communist Party in the 1950s. (West...Even the most fanatical ...
Parade Potty Nazi answers the call of nature
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/17/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...sidewalk, I lingered. The Potty Nazi noticed me taking notes and...permission to approach. The Potty Nazi explained she doesn't live...Artesian. She just came for a party. "My girlfriend is inside...Line," barked the Potty Nazi as someone blithely headed for...
The New Nazis.
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication; 9/28/2001; 700+ words ; ...he said. A Dark Past Nazi is the short name for...Socialist German Workers Party, a political organization...1921 until 1945. The Nazis believed in the racial...will help reformed neo-Nazis to find work and housing...the National Democratic Party of Germany, a political party popular ...