Christopher Nuttall: Storm Front

The third, connected to the second, is a growing economic crisis. The Reich is simply not very efficient; in a sense, it has all the weaknesses of a command economy without any of the strengths, a problem caused by the division of German economic facilities among the various branches of the state. In particular, intelligent young men are fleeing Germany for America where they won’t have to work in an inefficient system. Furthermore, social security payments (particularly to mothers with more than three children) are slowly draining the system dry.

In trying to tackle these problems, the Reich may have sown the seeds of its own disintegration…

Abwehr – German Military Intelligence

Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM) – League of German Girls/Band of German Maidens, female wing of the Hitler Youth.

Einsatzgruppen – SS extermination squads

Gastarbeiter – Guest Worker

Germanica – Moscow, renamed after the war

Hauptsturmfuehrer – SS rank, roughly equal to Captain.

Heer – The German Army

Herrenvolk – Master Race

Kriegsmarine – The German Navy

Luftwaffe – The German Air Force

Mutterkreuz – Mother’s Cross

Oberfeldwebel – Heer rank, roughly equal to Master Sergeant

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW, ‘Supreme Command of the Armed Forces’) – The German General Staff.

Obergruppenfuehrer – SS rank, roughly equal to Lieutenant General.

Ordnungspolizei – Order Police (regular police force)

Reichsführer-SS – Commander of the SS

Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) – Reich Main Security Office

Sigrunen – SS insignia (lightning bolts)

Standartenfuehrer – SS rank, roughly equal to Colonel.

Sturmbannfuehrer – SS rank, roughly equal to Major.

Strumscharfuehrer – SS rank, roughly equal to Master Sergeant.

Untermensch – Subhuman.

Untermenschen – Subhumans, plural of Untermensch.

Unterscharfuehrer – SS rank, roughly equal to Second Lieutenant.

Vaterland – Fatherland

Volk – The German Population.

Wehrmacht – The German Military (often taken to represent just the army ( Heer )).

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