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page 1Political repression in Nazi Germany
White Rose
non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor
Enabling Act of 1933
German law which transferred power from the Reichstag and the Weimar President to Adolf Hitler and his Cabinet
Nazi human experimentation
unethical experiments on human subjects
Erich Ohser
German caricaturist and cartoonist (1903–1944)
Schutzhaft
extra- or para-legal rounding-up of political opponents, Jews, and other persecuted groups in Nazi Germany
Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists
German political confederation founded in 1947 by political opponents to Nazism
Sondergericht
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A Sondergericht (plural: Sondergerichte) was a German "special court". After taking power in 1933, the Nazis quickly moved to remove internal opposition to the Nazi regime in Germany. The legal system became one of many tools for this aim and the Nazis gradually supplanted the normal justice system with political courts with wide-ranging powers. The function of the special courts was to intimidate the German public, but as they expanded their scope and took over roles previously done by ordinary courts such as Amtsgerichte
Brandenburg-Görden Prison
prison
list of Germans who resisted Nazism
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