When the Nazis came to power in 1933 they made the legend an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the " November criminals " who used the stab in the back to seize power while betraying the nation.

According to historians at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “ The Nazis frequently used euphemistic language to disguise the true nature of their crimes.

Posters who censure the grammar of others are often called Grammar Nazis – this may cause great offence due to the association with Nazism, but this label is also used ironically and is occasionally proudly self-applied.

In Germany, the Nazis used social Darwinism to promote their racialist concept of the German nation as part of the Aryan race and the need for the Aryan race to be victorious in what the Nazis believed was a race struggle — an ongoing competition and conflict between races.

As a result, the English word is now associated with the Nazi government of Germany not used often in post-World War II English unless one wishes to invoke the Nazis, or one is translating literally from a foreign language where that language's equivalent of " fatherland " does not bear Nazi connotations.

Testament is sometimes deemed an anti-Nazi film as Lang had put phrases used by the Nazis into the mouth of the title character.

It was in this sense that the term was used by the Nazis themselves.

The Nazis used the economical crisis, which had significant effects in far-off Masuria, as well as traditional anti-Polish sentiments while at the same time Nazi political rallies were organized in the Masurian dialect during the campaigning.

* 1938 – Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.

On the negative side, this was deliberately done by the Nazis On the more positive side, proverbs have also been used for positive purposes.

A number of previously neutral words used by the Nazis have later taken on negative connotations in German ( e. g. or ); while in many contexts is not one of them ( Frankreich, France ; Römisches Reich, Roman Empire ), it can imply German imperialism or strong nationalism if it is used to describe a political or governmental entity.

The Nazis had used the opportunity to round up the many Jews living in that part of Italy and sent them off to extermination camps ; heretofore, many Italian officials had refused to implement the " Final Solution.

During WWII the Jewish Savoye family was sent to concentration camps by the Nazis who took over the house and used it for storage.

On his grave, the Hebrew inscription reads: " Righteous among the Nations ", an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.

In the 1930s and 1940s Europe the Nazis used barbed wire in concentration camp architecture, where it usually surrounded the camp and was electrified to prevent escape.

The Nazis used the swastika as a symbol of the Aryan race.

From 1945 to 1950, the Soviet Union used the occupied Buchenwald concentration camp to imprison defeated Nazis and other Germans.

Between 1945 and 1950 the former camp was used by the Soviet Union as an NKVD special camp for Nazis.

Raeder used his old college Magnus von Levetzow, who worked as Adolf Hitler's naval adviser in the late 1920s and early 1930s to leak Reichsmarine material to the Nazis out of hope that this might win the Nazis over to navalism.

The Nazis used slave labor from 30 countries at these camps to assemble the Messerschmitt fighter planes and to manufacture rifles and other weapons for the war effort.

) thousands of Rwandans on analogous racial criteria, such as which would be used later by the Nazis.

A memorial to the Spartacus League | Spartacist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, commissioned by Eduard Fuchs, president of the German Communist Party in Germany designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, built by Wilhelm Pieck, and inaugurated on 13 June 1926, later destroyed by the Nazis

Though the common usage is ghetto, the Nazis most often referred to these areas in documents and signage at their entrances as Jüdischer Wohnbezirk or Wohngebiet der Juden ( German ); both translate as Jewish Quarter.

He thus became the first English language historian and indeed the first historian after Hans Mommsen to accept the conclusions of the book, that the Nazis had not set the Reichstag on fire in 1933 and that Marinus van der Lubbe had acted alone.

What Tobias and Taylor argued had happened, was that the new Nazi government had been looking for something to increase its share of the vote in the elections of 5 March 1933, so as to activate the Enabling Act and that van der Lubbe had serendipitously ( for the Nazis ) provided it by burning down the Reichstag.

From 1939 on, he worked on the editorial staff of the Jesuit publication Stimmen der Zeit (" Voices of the Times "), until the Nazis suppressed it in April 1941.

Brandenburg an der Havel was one of the very first locations in the Third Reich where the Nazis experimented with killing their victims by gas.

The Autobahn concept did not originate with the Nazis but had its beginnings in the efforts of a private consortium, the HaFraBa ( Verein zur Vorbereitung der Autostraße Hansestädte-Frankfurt-Basel ), founded in 1926 for the purpose of building a high-speed highway between Northern Germany and Basel, in Switzerland.

Historians disagree as to whether Van der Lubbe acted alone or whether the arson was planned and ordered by the Nazis, then dominant in the government themselves, as a false flag operation.

The Nazis alleged that Van der Lubbe was part of the Communist conspiracy to burn down the Reichstag and seize power, while the Communists alleged that Van der Lubbe was part of the Nazi conspiracy to blame the crime on them.

Kershaw, in Hitler Hubris, says it is generally believed today that van der Lubbe acted alone and the Reichstag fire was merely a stroke of good luck for the Nazis.

Particularly its early reports and serials in regards to the Reichstag fire authored by former SS officers Paul Carell ( who had also served as chief press spokesman for Nazi Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ) and Fritz Tobias have since about the year 2000 been considered influential in historiography due to the fact that since the 1960s the Spiegel reports written by these two authors had made accredited historian Hans Mommsen a lifelong champion for the guilt blame of Marinus van der Lubbe, the man the Nazis themselves had presented as perpetrator of the Reichstag fire in 1933.

File: Bundesarchiv Bild 102-02134, Bad Harzburg, Gründung der Harzburger Front. jpg | Nazis alongside members of the far-right reactionary and monarchist German National People's Party ( DNVP ), in 1931 during the Nazi-DNVP alliance in the Harzburg Front.

The Nazis publicly blamed the fire on communist agitators in general, although in a German court in 1933, it was decided that van der Lubbe had acted alone, as he claimed to have done.

Because it was filtered through the National Socialist censorship it has also been called " der braune Meyer " (" The brown Meyer ", brown being the colour associated with the Nazis ).

( German version: Herrenmenschen-Das Lebensborn-Experiment der Nazis.

A memorial to the fallen Spartacus League | Spartacists, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1926, after 1933 destroyed by the Nazis.

Architect and future Bauhaus director Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed in 1926 a 12 metre wide and 6 metre high red brick Monument to the Revolution which the National Socialists ( Nazis ) destroyed in 1935.

The first Institut für Sexualwissenschaft ( Institute for Sex Research ) of Magnus Hirschfeld was situated at the former In den Zelten street, near the contemporary Haus der Kulturen der Welt, from 1919 until it was closed by the Nazis in 1933.

After he refused to remove his criticism of National Socialism from his book Deutschland und der Weltfrieden, the Nazis confiscated the passports of Hedin ’ s Jewish friend Alfred Philippson and his family in 1938 in order to prevent their intended departure to American exile and retain them in Germany as a bargaining chip when dealing with Hedin.

Some songs which are much older than the post-World War I Nazi movement, and which were used by the Nazis, are often confused with Nazi songs ; this observation applies above all to Das Lied der Deutschen, which was written in 1841.

Nazis in der DDR.

The burning of the Reichstag building in 1933 remains controversial and although Marinus van der Lubbe was tried, convicted and executed for arson, it is possible that the Reichstag fire was perpetrated by the Nazis to enhance their power and destroy democracy in Germany.