Nazi Terminology - H

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• Hakenkreuz 'hooked cross' – swastika.
• Halsschmerzen "sore throat" or "itchy neck" - used of a reckless or glory-seeking commander, implying an obsession with winning the Knight's Cross
• Hauptscharführer "chief squad leader" - an SS rank, the highest enlisted grade in the Allgemeine-SS, equivalent to Master Sergeant.
• Hauptsturmführer "chief storm leader" - an SS rank, equivalent to Captain.
• Haupttruppführer "chief troop leader" - an SA and early SS rank, the highest enlisted grade in the SA, equivalent to Sergeant Major.
• Heer - the Army. Not specific to the Third Reich.
• Heimat – the 'homeland' of the German volk (i.e., The Greater German Reich). Not specific to the Third Reich.
• Heimatvertriebene – Germans expelled from their homeland.
• Heimtückegesetz – 1934 law establishing penalties for abuse of Nazi badges and uniforms and restricting freedom of speech.
• "Hermann Meyer" - derogatory nickname for Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring, after his intemperate boast that "if one bomb falls on Berlin, you can call me 'Meyer'!"
• Herrenvolk/Herrenrasse 'people/race of lords' – The master race.
• HIAG (German: 'Hilfsgemeinschaft auf Gegenseitigkeit der Angehörigen der ehemaligen Waffen-SS, literally "Mutual Help Association of Former Waffen-SS Members") was an organization founded in 1951 by former members of the Waffen-SS.
• HIB-Aktion – "Into-the-Factories Campaign"; a part of the Nazi campaign to recruit factory workers.
• Hitlerism is another term for Nazism used by its opponents.
• Hitlerproleten – "Hitler's proletariat"; what the Berlin working class Nazis called themselves (to distinguish themselves from the rest of the proletariat). (8)
• Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) – The German youth organization founded by the Nazi Party (NSDAP). Made up of the Hitlerjugend proper, for male youth ages 14–18; the younger boys' section Deutsches Jungvolk for ages 10–13; and the girls' section Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM). From 1936 membership in the HJ proper was compulsory.
• Hoheitsabzeichen, or more specific Hoheitsadler or Reichsadler – national insignia (eagle and swastika). See Federal Coat of Arms of Germany.
• Horst-Wessel-Lied -- The "Horst Wessel Song", also known as Die Fahne hoch ("The Flag Up High") from its opening line, was the anthem of the Nazi Party from 1930 to 1945. From 1933 to 1945 the Nazis made it a co-national anthem of Nazi Germany, along with the first stanza of Deutschlandlied.