The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right [page needed] political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and …

During World War II, Nazi Germany engaged in a policy of deliberate maltreatment of Soviet prisoners of war (POWs), in contrast to their general treatment of British and American POWs. This policy, which amounted to deliberately starving and working to death Soviet POWs, the bulk of whom were Slavs, was grounded in Nazi racial theory, which depicted Slavs as sub-humans …

Begriffsgeschichte und -verwendung. Nazi war ursprünglich eine Koseform des Vornamens Ignaz, der in Bayern und Österreich häufig war. So wurde etwa Ludwig Thomas Bauernschwank Der Schusternazi 1905 im Theater am Gärtnerplatz in München uraufgeführt. Abwertend gebraucht wurde der Begriff für eine einfältige, törichte Person und für Deutsch-Österreicher sowie …

The Enabling Act (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz) of 1933, officially titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich (lit. 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich'), was a law that gave the German Cabinet—most importantly, the Chancellor—the powers to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or Weimar President Paul von Hindenburg.

During World War II, Nazi Germany developed many missile and precision-guided munition systems. These included the first cruise missile, the first short-range ballistic missile, the first guided surface-to-air missiles, and the first anti-ship missiles

German submarine U-166 was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.The submarine was laid down on 6 December 1940 at the Seebeckwerft (part of Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG, Deschimag) at Wesermünde (modern Bremerhaven) as yard number 705, launched on 1 November 1941, and commissioned on 23 March 1942 under the …

Background and history. The term Freiwillige was used in Nazi propaganda to describe non-German Europeans (neither Reichsdeutsche nor Volksdeutsche) who volunteered to fight for Nazi Germany during World War II.Though largely recruited from occupied countries, they also came from co-belligerent, neutral, and even active enemy nations.

Economic union, a type of trade bloc; Political union, a type of state which is composed of or created out of smaller states; Personal union, the combination of two or more states that have the same monarch; Poor law union, a former unit of local government in the United Kingdom; Real union, a union of two or more states, which share some state institutions

The first camp brothel was established in Mauthausen/Gusen in 1942. After 30 June 1943, a camp brothel existed in Auschwitz, and from 15 July 1943, in Buchenwald.The one in Neuengamme was established in early 1944, Dachau's in May 1944, Dora-Mittelbau's in late summer, and Sachsenhausen's on 8 August 1944. There are conflicting dates for the camp …

Weather Station Kurt (Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26) was an automatic weather station, erected by a German U-boat crew in northern Labrador, Dominion of Newfoundland, in October 1943.Installing the equipment for the station was the only known armed German military operation on land in North America during the Second World War.After the war it was forgotten until its rediscovery …