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[Back] APPENDIX B Nazi Era Terminology/Alternate Search Terms (Alternative Suchbegriffe) Aryanization (e.g., arisierter Firmen): process whereby Jewish businesses, property, and positions were transferred into Aryan hands Ancestry Heritage Program (Ahnenerbe): a National Socialist study group dedicated to researching the history of the Aryan race Death Head's Unit (division Totenkopf): SS concentration camp guard unit disinfection chamber (Entwesungskammer, Desinfektion, Entlausungsanstalt): gas chamber (N.B. sometimes "disinfection" actually means "disinfection" depending on context) ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche): German-speaking minority in a country outside Germany evacuation (Evakuierung, Deportierung): deportation "Final Solution" (Endlösung): systematic destruction of European Jewry gas vans (Gaswagen): mobile gas chambers (sealed vans in which victims were gassed) Germanized children (Eindeutschungskinder): children deemed suitable for Germanization (possessing so-called Aryan racial characteristics) inmates (Insassen): prisoners "Jewish Question" (Judenfrage): pertains to issues of persecution, stripping Jewish citizens of rights, and genocide "Night and Fog" (Nacht und Nebel): German policy of arrest and deportation of anyone suspected of resistance, in which arrested persons could not contact family members and disappeared into the "night and fog" resettlement (Umsiedlung, Aussiedlung): deportation personnel files/cards/dossiers (Personalakten): most often refers to forced/slave labor files preventive crime fighting/measures (vorbeugende Verbrechensbekämpfung): arrest of persons without any legal limits or judicial review preventive detention (Vorbeugungshaft): holding of persons without legal limits or judicial review protective custody (Vorbeugungshaft): arrest special detachment (Sonderkommando): camp work units forced to help with the killing process (such as disposing of corpses) special treatment (Sonderbehandlung): execution work camp (Arbeitslager): slave labor camp For additional Nazi terminology, users should consult: Robert Michael and Karin Doerr, Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi German: An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reich (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002). [Back] |