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  • Nacht und Nebel – "Night and fog", code for some prisoners that were to be disposed of, leaving no traces.
  • Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt – the National Political Educational Establishment, or NPEA.
  • Nationalpreis für Kunst und Wissenschaft - see Deutscher Nationalpreis für Kunst und Wissenschaft.
  • Nationalsozialismus (NS) - National Socialism, i.e. Nazism.
  • Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation (NSBO) – National Socialist Factory Cell Organization (Nazi Party labor union) which had a membership of approx. 400,000 workers by January 1933.
  • Nationalsozialistische Briefe – pro-labor publication launched by Gregor Strasser and edited by Joseph Goebbels.
  • Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) – the National Socialist German Workers' Party of Adolf Hitler: the Nazi Party.
  • Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft (NSF) – "National Socialist Women's League" headed by Gertrud Scholtz-Klink; founded in October 1931 as a fusion of several nationalist and national-socialist women's associations. It was designed to create women leaders and supervise indoctrination and training. It had 2 million members by 1938.
  • National-Sozialistische Landpost – NSDAP agricultural paper started by Richard Walther Darré.
  • Nationalsozialistischer Lehrerbund (NSLB) "National Socialist Teachers League" - mandatory teachers' union; in 1935 merged into the NSDDB.
  • Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (NSV) – NSDAP welfare organization founded in Berlin in September 1931. It acquired the official role in welfare and later on the racial policy of the Third Reich.
  • Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Dozentenbund (NSDDB) - National Socialist German University Lecturers League.
  • Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (NSDStB) – Nazi Students League, founded in 1926.
  • Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps (NSFK) - National Socialist Flyers Corps. Flying "club" used to mask the training of future military pilots; closely affiliated to the SA and thus a rival to Goering's DLV.
  • Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps (NSKK) - National Socialist Motor Corps. Originally the transport branch of the SA, the NSKK became the national organisation for the promotion of and training in motor vehicle operation and maintenance.
  • Nazi - a short term for Nationalsozialist, i.e. a supporter of Nazism (National Socialism) and/or the Nazi Party. It was contrasted with Sozi, which was used to refer to a Sozialist, i.e. a supporter of Socialism and/or the Social Democratic Party of Germany. As an adjective, this short form is used more often in the English language than in German, in which the acronyms NS and NSDAP for respectively the ideology and the party were and are the preferred form.
    • Nazism - National Socialism; the ideology of the NSDAP (generally considered to be a variant of Fascism with racist and antisemitic components)
    • denazification (Entnazifizierung) – the process by which the Allied occupiers attempted to purge post-war Germany of remnants of the Nazi regime and Nazi philosophy
    • ex-Nazis – former Nazis
  • Nazismus - Nazism.
  • Nebenland ("Borderland") - term occasionally used to describe the General Government's legally vague status as an "ancillary region" of the German Reich that was neither fully within its boundaries nor accorded any clear political designation.
  • Negermusik ("Negro Music") - a term used to denigrate music such as Jazz and Swing that was performed by African-American musicians. Such music became banned publicly in Nazi Germany. See also Swingjugend (swing kids).
  • Die Neuordnung - "The New Order"; the formation of a hegemonial empire in Europe in order to ensure the supremacy of Nazi Germany and the "Nordic-Aryan master race".
  • Night of the Long Knives - A/K/A "Operation Hummingbird", or more commonly used in Germany "Röhm-Putsch". It was the action that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and 2 July 1934 where Hitler and the SS murderously purged the ranks of the Sturmabteilung (SA).
  • Nordstern - architectural project to construct a new, exclusively German-populated metropolis and naval base close to the Norwegian city of Trondheim.
  • NSDAP - The formal abbreviation of the Nazi party's full name.
  • NSDAP Zentralkartei – master file, containing approx. 7.2 million original and official individual German Nazi Party membership cards. Comprises two separate files. It is housed in the Berlin Document Center (BDC).
    • Ortskartei –
    • Reichskartei —
  • Nur für Deutsche – "For Germans Only."
  • Nuremberg Rallies - see Reichsparteitag
  • Nürnberger Gesetze, Nuremberg Laws - 1935 set of decrees which deprived Jews of German citizenship and placed strict restrictions on their lives and employment.

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