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49 unusual facts about Nazism


Alfons Heck

Alfons Heck (3 November 1928 – 12 April 2005) was a German who was a member of Hitler Youth, eventually becoming a Hitler Youth Officer and a fanatical adherent of Nazism’s ideologies.

Heck also provided testimony on parallels between Nazism and Islam and was featured in the documentary Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.

Anni Albers

The Bauhaus at Dessau was closed in 1932 under pressure from the Nazi party and moved briefly to Berlin, permanently closing a year later in August 1933.

Bobby Hull

In 1998, Hull got involved in a controversy with the Russian media when he allegedly made pro-Nazi comments.

Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle

When war breaks out in 1939, Candide is drafted and then captured by the Nazis, but escapes and joins the International Red Cross.

Chad Mitchell Trio

"Twelve Days" imagined a group of former Nazis singing new lyrics to the old Christmas carol; a similar theme would be explored later in "The I Was Not A Nazi Polka".

Cumberland Lodge

In 1943 Amy Buller’s book Darkness Over Germany was published.Drawing on her experiences in Germany between the two world wars, she believed that the rise of Nazism had been significantly aided by the great German universities not teaching students to use their critical judgment on the world around them and not providing an environment where the great issues of the day could be openly discussed.

Curtiss F11C Goshawk

Though not interested in politics, Ernst Udet joined the Nazi party in 1933 when Hermann Göring promised to buy him two new Curtiss Export Hawk II (D-3165 and D-IRIK).

Dark Fall: Lost Souls

The Inspector finds her suitcase and learns that she was working for a group called The Agency, who were supposedly working against the Nazis.

David Vienneau

He was known for his coverage of controversial topics such as Nazi war criminals living in Canada and gun control.

Dunkelwerk

Dunkelwerk is the name of a German band which describes its sound as Endzeit Electro (dark electronic beats and sounds often combined with Nazism themes or horror apocalyptic scenarios and distorted vocals), referring to a genre which was originally established by bands like :wumpscut: and Leæther Strip and is nowadays produced by bands like The Retrosic, Suicide Commando or Hocico.

Emanuel Bronner

As his father was Jewish, he pleaded with his parents to emigrate with him for fear of the then-ascendant Nazi Party, but they refused.

Erich Häßler

Under the Nazis, he was member of the "Office for Racial Policy" ("Rassenpolitisches Amt") in Leipzig.

Feldafing

During the Nazi era, Feldafing was the site of an elite school of the Nazi Party, the "Reichsschule Feldafing", and of a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp.

Ferdinand Kübler

He began racing professionally in 1940 but his early career was limited to Switzerland by the Nazi occupation elsewhere.

Franz Schönhuber

He was accused of minimizing the grave crimes of National Socialism, although within a lawsuit he also won a determination that the book did not represent an identification with the Nazi regime.

Georg Kaiser

Imprisoned briefly in 1923 for stealing a loaf of bread during the hyper-inflationary crisis, Kaiser fled to Switzerland when the Nazis came to power in the 1930s (Kaiser went into exile in 1938).

Gerrit Bolkestein

In early 1944 he gave a radio address from London in which he said that after the war he would collect written evidence from Dutch people relating to the oppression they had endured during the Nazi occupation.

Hanns Ludin

Born in Freiburg to Friedrich and Johanna Ludin, Ludin began his Nazi affiliation in 1930 by joining the party, and was arrested for his political activities the same year.

Heinrich Albertz

As a member of the Confessing Church he opposed the Nazis, was arrested several times and conscripted into the Wehrmacht in 1941.

Heinz Neumann

At the same time, he encouraged fighting the Nazis and coined the slogan "Schlagt die Faschisten, wo ihr sie trefft!" (Beat the Fascists wherever you meet them!), valid until 1932.

Herbert Reinecker

This was a time when the Nazis had already been in power for three years and when the media had long been gleichgeschaltet.

Hongkou District

During the Second World war when the city was occupied by the Japanese, 20,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe lived in a notoriously overcrowded square-mile section known to the West as the Shanghai ghetto.

James Tracy

In early 1989, the presence of Neo-Nazi organizers in Vallejo helped him form an anti-racist commitment.

Juan Bautista Molina

Brigadier General Juan Bautista Molina was an Argentine military commander and a pro-Nazi Argentine ultranationalist who led the Nationalist Liberation Alliance (ALN).

Julius Hoffman

Over the course of his career as a judge, Hoffman presided over numerous important cases, including a tax evasion case against Tony Accardo, an obscenity case against Lenny Bruce, a deportation suit against alleged Nazi war criminal Frank Walus, and several desegregation suits.

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics

In its early years, and during the Nazi era, it was strongly associated with theories of Nazi eugenics and racial hygiene advocated by its leading theorists Fritz Lenz, (first director)Eugen Fischer, and by its second director Otmar von Verschuer.

Kiev Zoo

During the 1940s (World War II), Kiev was occupied by the Nazi forces, and the zoo was being used by the German garrison.

Kjeld Abell

Both before and during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Abell used his plays to protest the loss of freedom.

Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe

After the rise of Nazism in Germany all three of his sons by his first wife became members of the party.

LGBT history in Germany

1929 - On October 16, a Reichstag Committee votes to repeal Paragraph 175; the Nazis' rise to power prevents the implementation of the vote.

Line of succession to the Danish throne

Further, his mother-in-law, Princess Helena, was accused of supporting the Nazi movement during the Second World War.

Little Woodbury

It was partially excavated between 1938 and 1939 by Gerhard Bersu, a German archaeologist who had been driven to Britain due to discriminations by the Nazis.

Ludwig Fahrenkrog

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they outlawed almost all other groups not affiliated with the party.

Malka Lee

She is the author of Durkh Kindershe Oygn (Through the Eyes of Childhood), published in 1955 and dedicated to her family, who were killed by the Nazis in the shtetl of Monastrishtsh (now Monastyryska, Ukraine) in 1941, as well as six volumes of poetry in Yiddish, her mother tongue, much of it about her experience of observing the Holocaust from the safety of the United States.

Martin Mutschmann

Martin Mutschmann (9 March 1879 – 14 February 1947) was the Nazi Regional Leader (Gauleiter) of the state of Saxony (Gau Sachsen) during the time of the Third Reich.

Million Franc Race

The Million Franc Race, or ‘Prix du Million’, was an effort in 1937 by the French Popular Front to induce French automobile manufacturers to develop race cars capable of competing with the incredibly advanced German Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union racers of the time, which were backed by the Nazi government in a (largely successful) attempt to dominate the sport, in order to 'prove the superiority of the Aryan race'.

National Socialist Vanguard

The National Socialist Vanguard is a Neo-Nazi group founded and led by Rick Cooper, and currently based in The Dalles, Oregon.

New Apostolic Church

The New Apostolic Church, like many other small organizations and societies, had to accept compromises with the National Socialist regime to avoid being prohibited or persecuted.

Odeon Records

In 1936 the director of the Odeon branch was forced to retire and replaced by Dr. Kepler, a Nazi party member.

Poul Henningsen

After the war he dissociated himself from the communists who were criticizing him for flabbing humanitarianism in his attitude to the settlement with the Nazis and for his growing scepticism about the Soviet Union and in many ways he was isolated.

Raquel Rastenni

As a Jew, she fled Denmark in October 1943 along with her family, as the country had come under Nazi occupation.

Remuh Cemetery

During the German occupation of Poland, the Nazis destroyed the cemetery tearing down the walls and hauling away tombstones to be used as paving stones in the camps, or selling them for profit.

Saint-Victor, Quebec

A Royal Canadian Air Force pilot in World War II, he attacked a cargo ship along the Normandy coast, shot a Nazi airplane, and was credited for sinking a Nazi ship in the North Sea.

Skip Homeier

Cast as a child indoctrinated into Nazism, who is brought to the United States from Germany following the death of his parents, Homeier was praised for his performance.

Subhas Chandra Bose's political views

He criticized the British during World War II, saying that while Britain was fighting for the freedom of the European nations under Nazi control, it would not grant independence to its own colonies, including India.

Sylvin Rubinstein

Sylvin Rubinstein (1914 Moscow, April 30, 2011, Hamburg) is a Russian dancer and cross-dresser, who was a member of the resistance to Nazism during World War II.

Tolga, Norway

Tolga was a stronghold for the Norwegian Nazi party Nasjonal Samling during the World War II, though the party was never represented in the town council.

Vermont State Police

The Second World War association of breeches and jackboots with Nazism caused many U.S. state and municipal forces to curtail use of breeches and jackboots except for mounted horse and motor patrols.


Andreas von Strucker

Baron indoctrinated his children in the beliefs of white supremacy, Nazism and the Fourth Reich.

Aryan Games

The Aryan Games were a proposed replacement for the Olympic Games by the National Socialist (Nazi) government of the Third Reich, to be housed permanently in Nuremberg at the German Stadium that was designed, but never built, by Albert Speer.

Asit Krishna Mukherji

Asit Krishna Mukherji (1898-March 21, 1977) was a Bengali Brahmin with National Socialist convictions who published pro-Axis journals.

Battle of Lewisham

In the mid-1970s New Cross and surrounding areas of south London became the focus of intense and sometimes violent political activity by neo-Nazis and members of the National Front (led by John Tyndall) and a breakaway faction (the National Party led by John Kingsley Read).

Brothers Keepers

The idea for the project took root in the 1990s, and when a German of Mozambiquan origin, named Alberto Adriano, was brutally killed by neo-Nazis in Dessau (East Germany) in 2000, a group of musicians decided to organize and fight back.

Bullet the Blue Sky

On the Zoo TV Tour, it was about Nazism; on the Elevation Tour, it became an indictment against handgun violence, illustrated by references to John Lennon's assassination and an ironic intro video clip featuring Charlton Heston, who was at that time the president of the National Rifle Association.

C. Hartley Grattan

In 1942 Grattan was forced to resign as Economic Analyst to the American Board of Economic Warfare when Representatives Martin Dies, Jr. and Jerry Voorhis accused him of being both a Nazi and Communist sympathizer; allegations that were withdrawn by Voorhis a short time later.

Carl Vincent Krogmann

Despite his shaky status Krogmann, a devotee of the writings of Richard Wagner, Paul de Lagarde and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, was a staunch believer in Nazism, especially its antisemitic aspects and rigorously enforced anti-Jewish laws within Hamburg whilst publicly speaking in support of them elsewhere.

Dietrich von Saucken

A cavalry officer who regularly wore both a sword and a monocle, Saucken personified the archetypal aristocratic Prussian conservative who despised the braune Bande ("brown mob") of Nazis.

Else Christensen

This is distinctly different from the Folkish beliefs of most Germanic Neo-Pagans who distinctly eschew affiliations with Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists, although sometimes the lines are blurred by terminology and semantics.

Fuhlsbüttel

Most of the inmates were Communists, Social Democrats and other political opponents of Nazism, Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Romani, homosexual men and others whom the regime wanted to lock up.

Hans Robert Scultetus

Hans Robert Scultetus was a German meteorologist, who headed the Pflegestätte für Wetterkunde (Meteorology Section) of the Nazi Ahnenerbe think tank.

Heinrich Eduard Jacob

At the 11th international congress of the literary organization P.E.N., held in Dubrovnik, Jacob joined fellow writers Raoul Auernheimer and Paul Frischaue in vocal opposition to Nazism, and contributed to the fracturing of the Austrian chapter of P.E.N. His books were banned under the Nazi regime, but remained in print via Swiss and Dutch exile publishers.

Hugo Schiltz

During World War II Schiltz was a member of the Nationaal-Socialistische Jeugd Vlaanderen (English: National Socialist Youth Flanders).

Jedem das Seine

An ExxonMobil ad campaign in January 2009 touted Tchibo coffee drinks at the company's Esso stores with the slogan Jedem den Seinen! The ads were withdrawn after protest from the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and a company spokesman said its advertising contractor had been unaware of the proverb's association with Nazism.

Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted

In World War II, Brønsted's opposition to the Nazis led to his election to the Danish parliament in 1947, but he was too ill to take his seat and died shortly after the election.

Krupp Trial

In the Krupp Trial, twelve former directors of the Krupp Group were accused of having enabled the armament of the German military forces and thus having actively participated in the Nazis' preparations for an aggressive war, and also for having used slave laborers in their companies.

KZ Manager

KZ Manager is a name shared by many similar resource management computer games putting the player in the role of a Nazi concentration camp "manager", where the "resources" to be managed include, depending on the version of the game, prisoners (either Jews, Turks or Gypsies), poison gas supplies, "normal" money and various equipment, as well as "public opinion" on the "productivity" of the camp.

Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen

From the 1960s, alongside the protagonists of the Frankfurt School, the Mitscherlichs played an important part in post-war Germany's intellectual debates, employing psychoanalytic thought for explaining the causes behind Nazi Germany and its aftermath in German society to the present day.

Maureen Potter

On a tour of Germany, they once performed in front of Adolf Hitler and other Nazis.

Milly Witkop

After World War II broke out, Witkop, like her husband and other anarchists such as Max Nettlau and Diego Abad de Santillán, supported the Allies because she felt Nazism could not be defeated with pacifist means.

Moral equivalence

Forms of the argument are also found in the works of authors not sympathetic to Nazism, such as F.J.P. Veale, Noam Chomsky, Joseph Sobran, and Nicholson Baker.

Nargaroth

While interviewed by "Magacinum ab ovo", Wagner said he sees Nazism as a mental restriction and that he had no Fascist ideas because he was a supporter of the Kriegsgräberfürsorge, a German organization caring for graves of soldiers similar to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and the MIA International.

Nazi views on Catholicism

Richard J. Evans wrote that Hitler believed that in the long run National Socialism and religion would not be able to co-exist, and stressed repeatedly that Nazism was a secular ideology, founded on modern science: "Science, he declared, would easily destroy the last remaining vestiges of superstition".

Proletarian nation

Nazism rejected the Marxist concept of internationalist class struggle, it identified "class struggle between nations", and sought to resolve internal class struggle in the nation while it identified Germany as a proletarian nation fighting against plutocratic nations.

Psyclon Nine

In interviews, the band has stated that they are frequently accused of Nazism, partly because their name is derived from Zyklon B, an insecticide best known for its use by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.

SS Admiral Nakhimov

The Berlin was chartered by the Nazis in 1939 as a Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude, KdF) workers' cruising ship and was used as a hospital ship later on in World War II.

Stanisław Szukalski

In 1939, the Nazi Siege of Warsaw resulted in the destruction of the museum and his life's work.

Stormtrooper

According to Vanguard of Nazism by Robert G. L. Waite and Male Fantasies of Klaus Theweleit, some of the psychological and social aspects of the Stormtrooper experience found their way into the Weimar republic paramilitary groups such as the Freikorps, which were largely made up of WWI veterans.

The Art of Painting

After the Nazi invasion of Austria, top Nazi officials including Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring attempted to acquire the painting.

Thomas Wiseman

For his next novel, The Romantic Englishwoman, Wiseman departed from the subject of war and Nazism and wrote a story of a novelist who describes in fictional form his wife's sexual encounter with a sponging self-styled poet in Baden-Baden, and the novelist's vivid imagination "begets the event".

Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper

Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper (13 October 1883 in Schwerin – 23 October 1935 in Dessau) was a Nazi politician and a Nazi Gauleiter in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.

Württembergischer Yacht Club

In 1937, during Nazi rule in Germany, the Sports Office of the Reich took away the power and freedom of all German sport associations.