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Abwehr
Aktion
Anschluss
Antisemitism
Appeasement
Article 48
Aryan
Aryanisation
Assimilation
Axis

B

Belzec
Blackshirts
Bolshevism
Beer Hall Putsch
Brownshirts
Buchenwald 		C

Caricature
Chancellor
Communism
Concentration camp
Cosmopolitan
Coup d'etat

D

Dachau
Death camp
Death Marches
Deportation
Displaced persons
DNVP
DVP
 E

Egalitarian
Einsatzgruppen
Enabling Act
Ethnic
Extermination camp
A law which provided a legal basis for Hitler's dictatorial rule. Called 'The Law to remove the Distress of People and State', it was enacted on 24 March 1933. It gave Hitler's cabinet power to pass laws without the consent of the other elected members of the Reichstag. These powers were supposed to last four years, but by the time April 1937 came, no one would question this act. Hitler was firmly in control.
Enabling Act
   
   
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Jewish Tradition
Antisemitism
Hitlers Rise to Power
The Third Reich

Mass Murder
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Concentration Camp
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