"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (278 page)

Gesetz über die Zulassung zur Rechtsanwaltschaft
. Law on Admission to the Profession of Attorney

Gesetz zum Schutz der Erbgesundheit des deutschen Volkes
. Law for the Protection of the Hereditary Health of the German People

Gesetz zum Schutz des deutschen Blutes und der deutschen Ehre
. Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor (Blood Protection Law)

Gesetz zur Änderung der Strafprozessordnung
. Law to Amend the Code of Criminal Procedure

Gesetz zur Sicherung der Einheit von Partei und Staat
. Law to Secure the Unity of Party and State

Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses
. Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases

Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums
. Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

Gesundheitsamt
. Public Health Office

Gewalttatenverordnung (1939)
. Decree on Acts of Violence (1939)

Gleichschaltung. lit
. Coordination (here, the alignment of political organizations, cultural and professional associations by law to the goals of National Socialist policy)

Großdeutsches Reich, Großdeutschland
. Greater German Reich, Greater Germany (which included the occupied and annexed territories of Austria, Czechoslowakia, and Poland) (Nazi term)

Grundrechtsvorbehalt
. Reservations of basic constitutional legal rights (i.e., that such rights can be restricted by legislative acts, which, however, may not affect the very essence of these rights; see art. 19, clause 2, of the Constitution [
Grundgesetz
] of the Federal Republic of Germany)

Haager Landkriegsordnung (1907)
. Hague Convention on the Rules of Land Warfare (1907)

Hauptabteilung Innere Verwaltung (in der Regierung des Generalgouvernements)
. Central Department of Internal Administration (in the General Government)

Hauptabteilung Justiz (im Generalgouvernement)
. Central Department of Justice (in the General Government)

Hauptkommission Warschau
. Main Commission (for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland) Warsaw

Haupttreuhandstelle Ost (HTO)
. Main Trustee Office East (agency established for the confiscation and administration of Polish and Jewish property in occupied Poland)

Heimtückegesetz (Gesetz gegen heimtückische Angriffe auf Staat und Partei)
. Treachery Law (Law against Treacherous Attacks on State and Party), concerning minor political offenses against the state

Hitlerjugend (HJ)
. Hitler Youth (youth organization of the NSDAP with the status of a
Parteigliederung
, or structural division)

Höherer SS und Polizeiführer (HSSPF)
. Higher SS and police leader

Inlandsjude
. German Jew (Nazi term for a Jew of German nationality or of German descent)

Innere Mission
. Charitable agency of the Protestant Church in Germany

Judenrat (Judenräte)
. Jewish Council(s)

Judenrein
. Purged of Jews (Nazi term)

Jüdische Unterstützungsstelle für das Generalgouvernement
. Jewish Aid Office for the General Government

Jüdisch versippt
. Related to Jews through marriage (Nazi term)

Jugendgericht
. Juvenile court

Kaiserreich
. German Empire (1871–1918)

Kammer
. Chamber, as Literature Chamber, Film Chamber

Kammergericht
. Prussian Supreme Court

Kämpfer, alter
. “Old Fighter,” an early Nazi Party member (before 1933)

Kennkarte
. Identification card

Kollegialgericht
. Court composed of several judges (as opposed to a single judge)

Kommandeur der SIPO und des SD (in einem Distrikt des Generalgouvernements) (KdS)
. Commander of the Security Police and the Security Service (KdS) in a district of the General Government, under control of the
Befehlshaber der SIPO und des SD
in the General Government)

Kommunalverwaltung
. Municipal administration

Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD)
. German Communist Party

Kreis
. Administrative entity (roughly equivalent to a British or American county and
comprising several local communities)

Kreishauptmann (pl. Kreishauptleute)
. Administrative chief of a
Kreis
in the General Government

Kreisleiter
. Party leader of a
Kreis

Kultusgemeinde, jüdische
. Jewish community

Lagebericht
. Situation report

Land (pl. Länder)
. State or province (as in a federal nation-state)

Landgericht
. State court, of the second instance (dealing with more important criminal and civil cases than an
Amtsgericht
)

Landjägerei
. Local police office

Landrat
. Prefect (of a
Kreis
)

Machtergreifung
. Seizure of power, the takeover of governing power by Hitler and the Nazi Party on January 30, 1933, and especially after the Enabling Act of March 23, 1933

Militärstandgericht
. Summary court-martial

Ministerialblatt: Reich Ministerial Gazette

Mischling
. Person of mixed descent, half-breed (in Nazi terminology, a descendant of Jewish and Gentile parents or grandparents)

Nachlaßgericht
. Probate court

Nacht-und-Nebel-Aktion
. Night and Fog Action (secret actions of Wehrmacht and judiciary officials against foreign nationals accused of “punishable offenses against the Reich.” Such persons were brought secretly [“by night and fog”] and adjudged by special courts.) (Nazi term)

Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund
. National Socialist German Students’ League (affiliated organization of the NSDAP)

Nationalsozialistischer Rechtswahrerbund (NSRB)
. League of National Socialist German Jurists (affiliated organization of the NSDAP) (NSRB)

Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (NSV)
. National Socialist Welfare Organization (affiliated organization of the NSDAP) (NSV)

NS-Frauenschaft
. Nazi Women’s League (affiliated organization of the NSDAP)

NS-Gliederung
. Structural division of the NSDAP (e.g., the Hitler Youth or the SS)

NS-Kraftfahrerkorps (NSKK)
. National Socialist Motor Corps

Oberbürgermeister
. Lord mayor

Obergericht
. Superior Court (Court of appeal in the General Government)

Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH)
. Army High Command

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW)
. Armed Forces High Command

Oberlandesgericht (OLG)
. State Superior Court (also depending on function: appellate court or court of appeal

Oberlandesgerichtspräsident (OLGP)
. Presiding judge of
Oberlandesgericht

Oberregierungsrat
. Senior high official

Oberreichsanwalt
. Reich attorney general

Oberstaatsanwalt
. Senior public prosecutor

Oberster Gerichtsherr. lit
. Supreme ruler over the judiciary (Nazi term for the Führer as supreme power with unlimited authority and not bound by the law)

Oberster Gerichtshof der Wehrmacht
. Supreme Court-Martial of the Wehrmacht

Oberster Prüfungshof für Volkszugehörigkeitsfragen
. Supreme Court of Review for Nationality Questions

Oberverwaltungsgericht (OVG)
. Prussian Administrative Supreme Court

Ordensburgen
. Elite Nazi Party schools named after the castles of the Teutonic Order (a term applied by Nazis to schools devoted to training of members of the Hitler Youth destined for political leadership)

Ordnungspolizei
. Order police: regular uniformed police; also constabulary in contrast to Security Police, which comprised the Gestapo and the criminal police

Ortsgruppenleiter
. Local section head of the Nazi Party (Nazi term)

Ostjuden
. Eastern European Jews

Ostraum
. Eastern territories (Nazi term for Eastern European countries to be ruled by the Nazis)

Parteigenossen (Pg.). lit
. Party comrade, a member of the Nazi Party

Parteigericht
. Nazi Party court

Polendelikt
. Crime committed by Poles (Nazi term)

Polenstrafrechtsverordnung (1941)
. Decree on Penal Law for Poles

Polizeidirektion
. Police directorate, police headquarters

Polizeirichter
. Magistrate

Polizeistandgericht
. Police summary court

Polizeiverwaltungsgesetz (1931) (PVG)
. (Prussian) Law of Police Administration

Positives Recht
. Statutory law

Präsidialkanzlei
. Presidential Chancellery (united in 1934 with the Chancellery of the Führer)

Privatrecht
. Civil law

Protektoratsangehörige
. Citizens of the Protectorate (of Bohemia and Moravia)

Rassenpflege
. Cultivation of race (eugenics) (Nazi term)

Rassenreferat (im Reichsministerium des Innern)
. Race Policy section (as in the Reich Ministry of the Interior)

Rassenschande
. Race defilement, or miscegenation (as defined by the Nuremberg laws, which declared marriage and sexual relations between “Aryans” and Jews illegal and punishable by law) (Nazi term)

Rassensonderrecht
. Special racial laws (especially anti-Jewish legislation)

Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA)
. Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS

Razzia
. Raid or roundup (as of Jews for deportation)

Recht, formelles
. Formal (statutory) law (e.g., procedural law)

Recht, materielles
. Substantive law

Recht, öffentliches
. Public law (relation between public authorities and between individual and state authorities)

Rechtsstaat
. In the context of German legal conceptualization, a state that stands under rule of law and which recognizes legal limitations to its sovereignty

Rechtsverordnung
. A decree issued by the executive branch

Referat, Referent
. Section, or department, of an agency; section chief

Regierungsbezirk
. Administrative district (comprising several
Kreise
)

Regierungspräsident
. District president (also the title of the representative of the Reich in Sudetenland)

Regierungsrat
. Governmental councilor

Reichsamtsleiter
. Head of a Reich office of the NSDAP (Nazi term)

Reichsanwalt
. Public prosecutor (at the Reich Supreme Court)

Reichsanzeiger: Reich Gazette
(publishing all relevant legal acts of the Reich authorities except laws and decrees, those being published in the
Reich Law Gazette
)

Reichsarbeitsgericht
. Supreme Labor Court

Reichsbahn, Deutsche
. German National Railroad

Reichsbund der Deutschen Beamten
. National League of German Civil Servants (an affiliated organization of the NSDAP founded in 1933 and reorganized by the law of May 27, 1937, as the only organization of Reich, state, and municipal civil servants)

Reichsbürger
. Citizen of the Reich (first category of subjects with full political status) (Nazi term)