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Photo: Jack de Nijs / Anefo. Nazi memorabilia are items produced during the height of Nazism in Germany, particularly the years between 1933 and 1945. Nazi memorabilia includes a variety of objects from the material culture of Nazi Germany, especially those featuring swastikas and other Nazi symbolism and imagery or connected to Nazi propaganda.
Awards and decorations of Nazi Germany were military, political, and civilian decorations that were bestowed between 1923 and 1945, first by the Nazi Party and later the state of Nazi Germany . The first awards began in the 1920s, before the Nazis had come to national power in Germany, with the political decorations worn on Party uniforms ...
The Imperial Regalia, also called Imperial Insignia[citation needed] (in German Reichskleinodien, Reichsinsignien or Reichsschatz ), are regalia of the Holy Roman Emperor. The most important parts are the Crown, the Imperial orb, the Imperial sceptre, the Holy Lance and the Imperial Sword. Today they are kept at the Imperial Treasury in the ...
Nazi archaeology. Much of the Nazi Party 's iconography was adopted from pseudoscientific, ideologically driven reconstructions of ancient civilizations, including the infamous Swastika emblem seen in inscriptions such as these on the 9th-century Sæbø sword. Nazi archaeology was a field of pseudoarcheology led and encouraged by various Nazi ...
The Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production ( German: Reichsministerium für Rüstung und Kriegsproduktion) was established on March 17, 1940, in Nazi Germany. [1] Its official name before September 2, 1943, was the ' Reichsministerium für Bewaffnung und Munition' ( transl. Reich Ministry of Arming and Munitions ). [1]
The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section Unit ( MFAA) was a program established by the Allies in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II. The group of about 400 service members and civilians worked with military forces to protect historic and cultural monuments from war damage, and as the conflict ...
German Army (1935–1945) The German Army ( German: Heer, German: [heːɐ̯] ⓘ; lit. 'army') was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, [ b] the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946. [ 4]
Reichszeugmeisterei. Coordinates: 48°6′6.5″N 11°35′0.8″E. The Reichszeugmeisterei ( German: [ˈʁaɪçs.tsɔʏkmaɪstəˌʁaɪ]; RZM ), formally located in Munich, was the first and eventually the primary Zeugmeisterei ( quartermaster 's office), as well as the national material control office of Nazi Germany. It replaced the SA ...