All Questions
16 questions
5
votes
1
answer
385
views
Did anyone challenge the Nazi regime in court?
In 1933, when the Nazi regime was not fully established, were there court cases where people tried to legally challenge illegal actions by the government (like imprisonment without verdict, removing ...
- 1,055
9
votes
2
answers
2k
views
What exactly was the position of ‘Party Minister’ assigned to Martin Bormann in Hitler’s will?
In Hitler’s last will and testament, he assigns all the different offices and functions prior to that held by him and the members of his cabinet to new office-holders-Dönitz became Reichpresident, ...
- 1,383
7
votes
3
answers
642
views
Why did the number of Nazis in the Bundestag increase significantly in 1953?
Looking at the list of former Nazi party members who were politically active after '45, we can see that there was a significant increase in '53 (from 17 to 45, so almost three times as many). That is ...
- 224
3
votes
1
answer
769
views
What were Nazi policies around converts to Judaism?
While Judaism is not a missionary religion, it is possible to convert to Judaism. I can only assume (although I've not found any sources on this), that practicing converts were treated like any other ...
- 133
9
votes
1
answer
2k
views
What does this acronym and the symbol in the middle represent?
One of my Polish friends just bought a ruined old brick house in a village in Poland, which was supposedly reigned by Germany during the second world war (I didn't ask the name nor the location of the ...
- 193
1
vote
4
answers
1k
views
Was WW2 necessary for Germany economically?
Many point to improvements in Germany's economy that took place under Hitler prior to WW2. To a certain extent, some of this must have been attributable to theft of Jewish property and the jobs in ...
- 2,350
22
votes
2
answers
9k
views
Why did other German political parties disband so fast when Hitler was appointed chancellor?
Not long after Hitler was appointed chancellor, opposition groups began to shut down. He, of course, had already criminalised the Communist KPD and alleged sympathisers, but I was astonished to learn ...
- 4,275
9
votes
1
answer
757
views
What is the earliest example of the usage of 'Nazis' to refer clearly and exclusively to the National-Socialists?
The term 'Nazi' is now commonly explained as being an abbreviation of 'National-Socialist'. That was not always the case.
The use of the term Nazi is a well-established convention in English. It ...
- 80.8k
2
votes
1
answer
360
views
Who made this violent speech in the documentary De Nuremberg à Nuremberg?
In F. Rossif's documentary De Nuremberg à Nuremberg at some point you can hear a pretty violent and aggressive speech (begins at 25:19 and ends up at 25:44) from which I could hardly understand things ...
- 21
10
votes
1
answer
1k
views
What transit restrictions were in place in Occupied Germany limiting military and civilian movement between the four occupation zones?
Question
What provisions or restrictions (civil and/or military) were in place in the summer of 1945 which governed movement between the four partitioned zones of occupation (British, American, ...
- 6,130
4
votes
1
answer
360
views
Can someone identify these German ww2 badges?
I have a number of badges on a leather pouch. Can someone identify these?
- 41
14
votes
6
answers
2k
views
When and how did the term "Nazi" start replacing the term "Germans" in the context of WW2?
Have been browsing through newspapers from September 1939 and hardly any of them mention the term Nazi.
Instead, the overwhelming majority of them use the term Germans.
Clearly, today in most ...
- 517
9
votes
10
answers
3k
views
Nazism and Jewish persecution awareness during the WW2 years [closed]
I've always wondered how is it possible that an entire nation and beyond (Germany) wasn't aware of the Jewish persecution during the WW2 years or, if they were, that they did nothing to stop it.
Were ...
- 225
9
votes
1
answer
369
views
Legal grounds of functioning of Third Reich concentration camps
I know for sure that repressions in the USSR at thirties had been en masse illegal in the sense that the laws existed at that period of time there's no word about, say, executing people without any ...
- 442
3
votes
1
answer
1k
views
German influence if the Nazis had won [closed]
By German influence I am referring to the German language.
I hear all the time that if Germany won the war we would be speaking German right now. Clearly there is a lot of exaggeration there and the ...
- 59
24
votes
7
answers
6k
views
Aside from the Jews, did Hitler have a final solution plan for other ethnicities/races in the Third Reich?
We know that Nazi ideology explicitly singled out Jews as the main reason for all Germany's problems, and planned to exterminate all of them. Nazis also persecuted gypsies, Polish people, and POWs. ...
- 3,587