The Nizkor Project: Remembering the Holocaust (Shoah)

Shofar FTP Archive File: imt/nca/nca-02//nca-02-glossary-01-03


Archive/File: imt/nca/nca-02/nca-02-glossary-01-03
Last-Modified: 1997/06/23

   Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Volume Two, Chapter XIV

                                                 [Page 1089]

                                      
                         I            
                                      
IA                                    Operations officer or
                                      section; cf. G-3
IB                                    Supply officer or section;
                                      cf. G-1
IC                                    Intelligence officer or
                                      section, cf. G-2
iA             im Auftrag             By order of (above a
                                      signature)
                                      
                                                     [Page 1090]
                                                                
iG             im Generalstab         Attached to the General
                                      Staff
iV.            Im Vertretung          Per (signature); acting
                                      for
                                      
                         K            
                                      
KZ             Konzentrationslager    Concentration Camp
KdF.           Kraft durch Freude     Stength through Joy
                                      (German Labor Front
                                      subsidiary)
               Kreis                  Largest NSDAP subdivision
                                      of a Gau
               Kreisleiter            NSDAP leader of a kreis
               Kreigsmarine           German Navy
Kripo          Kriminalpolizei        Criminal Police
               Kripo-Leitstelle       Regional Criminal Police
                                      office, directly under
                                      Reich Criminal Police
                                      authority
               Kripo-Stelle           Smaller than Kripo-
                                      Leitstelle, but also
                                      directly under Reich
                                      Criminal Police authority
                                      
                         L            
                                      
               Land                   One of the federal states
                                      of Germany (e.g. Prussia,
                                      Bavaria, Saxony, etc.)
               Landesgruppe           The Nazi Party
                                      organization in any
                                      country outside Germany
               Lebensraum             Living space
               Leiter der             Chief of the Party
               Parteikanzlei          Chancellery (Bormann)
Lw.            Luftwaffe              German Air Corps
                                      
                         M            
                                      
Mil. Bef,      Militaerbefehlshaber   Military Commander (com-
                                      
                                                     [Page 1091]
                                                                
                                      manding non-operational
                                      troops in occupied
                                      territories)
               Ministerrat fuer die   Ministerial Council for
               Reichsverteidigung     the Defense of the Reich
               Ministerialdirektor    High civil servant (chief
                                      of a main section of a
                                      Ministry)
               Ministerialdirigent    High civil servant,
                                      ranking below
                                      Ministerialdirektor
               Ministerialrat         High civil servant,
                                      rnaking below
                                      Ministerialdirigent
               Mit deutschem Gruss    With German salute
                                      (equivalent to Heil
                                      Hitler)
MdR.           Mitglied des           Member of the Reichstag
               Reichstags
                                      
                         N            
                                      
NS             Nationalsozialismus    National Socialism
NSBO           Nationalsozialistisch  National Socialist Factory
               e Betriebszellen       Cells Organization
               Organisation
NSDAP          Nationalsozialistisch  National Socialist German
               e Deutsche             Workers' Party; Nazi Party
               Arbeiterpartie
               Nationalsozialistisch  NS German Students' Bund
               er Deutscher
               Nationalsozialistisch  NS University Teachers'
               er Dozentenbund        Bund
                                      
                                                     [Page 1092]
                                                                
NSFK           Nationalsozialistisch  NS Flying Corps
               es Fliegerkorps
NSF            Nationalsozialistisch  NS Women's League
               e Frauenschaft
NSK            Nationalsozialistisch  NS Official News Agency
               e Korrespondenz
NSKK           Nationalsozialistisch  NS Motor Corps
               er Kraftfahrkorps
               Nurnberger Gesetze     Nurnberg anti-Semitic laws
                                      
                                      
                                      


Home ·  Site Map ·  What's New? ·  Search Nizkor

© The Nizkor Project, 1991-2012

This site is intended for educational purposes to teach about the Holocaust and to combat hatred. Any statements or excerpts found on this site are for educational purposes only.

As part of these educational purposes, Nizkor may include on this website materials, such as excerpts from the writings of racists and antisemites. Far from approving these writings, Nizkor condemns them and provides them so that its readers can learn the nature and extent of hate and antisemitic discourse. Nizkor urges the readers of these pages to condemn racist and hate speech in all of its forms and manifestations.