Nazi Terminology - F

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• Feldgendarmerie - Field Gendarmerie or Field Police, the military police units of the Wehrmacht.
• Feldherrnhalle - loggia on the Odeonsplatz in Munich; site of the violent climax of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Used as the name of an SA Standarte, which eventually grew into the Panzer Corps Feldherrnhalle.
• Fraktur – a fashion of blackletter popularly associated with Nazi Germany, though the blackletter typefaces were banned by Hitler in 1941 on the grounds that it was Jewish.
• Fremdblütig (alien-blooded) - a term for persons of "non-Aryan" heritage, who accordingly were not German-blooded.
• Fremdmoral (alien morality) - a term for moral principles that do not originate with one's own "species" (Artung), and thus undermine "species-specific" (arteigene) ethics. For the "Nordic" person, for example, Christian morality was a typical alien morality.
• Frontgemeinschaft – front line community. It was termed for the solidarity felt by the German soldiers of World War I in the trench warfare.
• Führer – leader. Adolf Hitler was called "Der Führer". Also an early SA and SS rank, later changed. to Sturmführer.
• Führerbefehl - "the leader's orders"; special directives personally issued by Hitler himself. These were considered the utmost unbreakable orders in the Third Reich, the last of which was to defend Berlin at all cost (and resulting in the suicides of the most fanatical followers).
• Führerbunker - (literally meaning "shelter leader" or " Führer's shelter") was located about 8.2 metres beneath the garden of the old Reich Chancellery building at Wilhelmstraße 77, and about 120 metres north of Hitler's New Reich Chancellery building in Berlin. This underground bunker was Hitler's last FHQ. Further, it is where Hitler and his wife Eva Braun spent the last few weeks of the war and where their lives came to an end on 30 April 1945.
• Führerhauptquartiere (FHQ), a number of official headquarters especially constructed for use by the Führer.
• Führerprinzip – the "leader principle", a central tenet of Nazism and Hitler's rule, based on absolute hierarchical authority and unquestioning obedience.
• Führerstaat – the concept of Hitler's dictatorship of one-man rule.
• Führerstadt - title bestowed on five different German and Austrian cities (Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Linz, and Nuremberg) which were to undergo major architectural reconstruction.
• SS-Führungshauptamt - SS Leadership Head Office, the administrative headquarters of the Waffen-SS.