Nazi Terminology - L

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• Lagerbordell - "Camp bordello" : a camp's on-site brothel where female forced sex workers were kept as a work-incentive for some Kapos and other favored prisoners.
• Landwirtschaftliche Gaufachberater – NSDAP agricultural conventions; first one held on February 8, 1931. They held Bauernkundgebungen (farmer's rallies).
• Landwirtschaftliche Vertrauensleute (LVL) – NSDAP agrarian agents; used to infiltrate other agricultural/husbandry/rural organizations to spread Nazi influence and doctrine.
• Landwirtschaftlicher Fachberater – expert consultant on agriculture that was assigned to every NSDAP Gau and Ort unit.
• Landwirtschaftlicher Schlepper "agricultural hauler" - code name for the Reichswehr's clandestine light tank design; forerunner of the Panzer I.
• Lebensborn – "Fountain of Life"; an SS organization founded by Himmler and intended to increase the birth rate of "Aryans" by providing unmarried mothers shelter in nursing homes so that they would not seek (illegal) abortions.
• Lebensraum – "Living space", specifically living space for ethnic Germans and generally referring to territories to be seized in Eastern Europe; see Drang nach Osten.
• Lebensunwertes Leben – ("Life unworthy of life") Term used for people with incurable mental health problems, serious birth defects and other health issues.
• Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) - Hitler's SS bodyguard regiment, originally commanded by Sepp Dietrich. By mid-1943 it had grown into a full Waffen-SS Panzer division known as "1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler".
• Leichttraktor "light tractor" - code name for the Reichswehr's clandestine medium tank design.
• Leistungsgemeinschaft – performance community; part of the Nazi Gleichschaltung of social institutions.
• Lufthansa - Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft, German Air Hansa Inc. German national airline, founded in 1926. Not the legal predecessor to today's Lufthansa.
• Luftwaffe – "air force." The Wehrmacht air arm was officially founded 26 February 1935. Today the air arm of the Bundeswehr.
• Legion Condor - German Army and Air Force "volunteers" sent to fight on the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War.