That’s where I cribbed most of them from. Children, kitchen, church I omitted as it wasn’t an official slogan and is fair debatable, although I guess I did include other things that were (the Golden Pheasants derision among them, again wanted a nod that not all Germans were a hive mind). Lebensborn was an oversight on my part, maybe for bonus points include which pop group owes its existence to it.
I’m one of the few that knows what Operation Todt was. Mainly because this is just down the street from my parents’ house.
I ticked thirty-four out of the total – limited self to those whose meaning I knew (there were a few others where I’d heard the word or expression, but basically didn’t know what it meant).
I rather feel that “Stalag” and “Sitzkrieg” (like “Blitzkrieg”, from which the “Sitz-” word is coined) are not exactly Nazi-specific. They’re from World War II, of course – but could equally have arisen, in an alternative World War II against a Germany which would have been aggressive, but maybe without the thoroughly vile attributes of the “Our Time-Line” version.
ABBA, the brunette one.
True, maybe I should have said “World War II terms”.
Ding ding, you win 100 internets. It means there is a direct causal line to be drawn from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the song Fernando. I love history.
I knew a bunch, sort of knew a few more (from knowing a little German) and got some of them wrong from incorrectly remembered history. E.g. I thought Aktion Reinhard was the vengence killing of a Czech village as payback for the death of Reinhard Heydrich. Oops.
Well, I knew that “sieg Heil” was a greeting, and incorrectly guessed what Judenrat meant, but that’s it… Blitzkrieg was in our history books, and is apparently an English word (as it’s in my English spell check dictionary). The rest seem to all be pure German.
BTW, I understand the lack of Kristallnacht, the only other term I know (It’s more Jewish than Nazi). But where is Gestapo?
Lidice. You weren’t far off, the Aktion was named in the memory of Heydrich.
C’mon, I said ramp the difficulty up! Everyone knows what the Gestapo was, probably more known that what ‘Blitzkrieg’ was.
I knew a few, but a couple I could guess at like Die Weiße Rose. Rose is obvious and die means the, so it wasn’t hard to work out that the middle word is white.
I was able to identify 13, which frankly surprised me a bit.
So, what are you saying, exactly?
Ich bin der Fuhrer of wit.
Well, I’m German, so I knew most of them, aside from what some specific operation names referred to. Incidentally, a few of these words would not be identified as ‘Nazi terms’ by most Germans, I believe—Abwehr really just means defense, so that nobody gets confused when you hear a German sports commentator talk about ‘Schwächen in der Abwehr’ (‘weaknesses in defense’), most people would take Mischling probably to mean something like a mongrel dog, Nacht und Nebel is a generic term for any dealings done in secrecy, a Sonderkommando is just a special forces unit, and Totenkopf is just the German word for skull, or rather for the skull used as an emblem (the skull-and-crossbones flag is commonly called ‘Totenkopfflagge’, for instance). So while these things obviously have a quite specific meaning in a Nazi context, it would not be odd to encounter them outside such a context, in perfectly ordinary everyday speech. (Also, ‘Führer’ is sometimes used simply to mean something like tourguide—‘Bergführer’ simply means someone guiding you through the mountains.)
Just saw this poll. I got 20. I went through a phase in my early teens when I was very interested in WWII generally, and Nazi Germany in particular, and a lot of it stuck.
This as well for me. Also echoing the point that not every one of these is ‘Nazi’.
I thought they didn’t suck as much as (being mostly not gung-ho Nazis) they threw the game. 
I know enough German words that a couple I could translate, but still didn’t tick off because I don’t what they mean wrt nazis (for example, totenkopf, volksgemeinschaft). I hope that was the right thing to do.
Just a few. If I had guessed on some I would have been wrong.
Right. In fact it seems that Admiral Canaris kept Spain out of WWII by telling his friend Franco that Hitler was a crazed loony. Canaris is a hero, not incompetent. There’s even a move to declare him a righteous gentile for his activities to save Jews.
Adm. Canaris was an interesting guy, and there’s a lot that we probably still don’t know about him and his work to undermine the Nazi regime: Wilhelm Canaris - Wikipedia
I may have not ticked some I actually should have, because I had to try to separate “words I know have Nazi connections” from “words I can understand because I took a year of German in college.”