Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany

Glossary and Abbreviations

Glossary and Abbreviations Abitur examination qualifying for the entrance into the university Akademie für Jugendführung Academy for Youth Leadership. Braunschweig Academy located in Braunschweig instructing and training the most high-ranking leaders within the Hitler Youth Arbeitsgemeinschaft working group Arbeitsgemeinschaft National Socialist female students nationalsozialistischer Studentinnen (ANSt) Arbeiter Turn- und Sportbund (ATUS) worker’s gymnastics and sports league Aufbauschulen comparable to junior high school Bundesarchiv (BA) national archives Berufsschulen vocational schools BDM organization within the League of German Girls. Girls ages fourteen to eighteen/twenty-one BDM Haushaltsschulen BDM household schools introduced in 1938 BDM-Werk “Glaube und Schönheit” BDM section “Faith and Beauty.” Organization of girls ages seventeen to twenty-one within the League of German Girls, founded 1938 Bayrisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (BHSA) Bavarian main archives Bund Deutscher Mädel League of German Girls Bundesführerin National leader of the League of German Girls, later called “Reichsreferentin des Bundes Deutscher Mädel” Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) National Socialist Labor Organization Deutscher Frauen Orden German Women’s order “Red “Rotes Hackenkreuz” (DFO) Swastika” Deutsches Jungvolk (DJ) organization of boys ages ten to fourteen within the Hitler Youth 257 Frauenarbeitsgemeinschaften Association for National Socialist Women Führercorps leader corps; high-ranking employed leaders of the Hitler Youth Führerinnenring leaders’ circle; high-ranking leaders of the League of German Girls Gauleiter regional leader Gleichschaltung streamlining; euphemism describing the process of surrendering all German institutions to Nazi policies Gymnasium classical secondary school Heimabend/Heimnachmittag home afternoon or evening that was obligatory once a week for all members of the Hitler Youth Hilfseinsatz des Bundes Deutscher War Service of the League of German Mädel Girls Jugendbewegung Youth movement Jugendführer des deutschen Reiches Youth Leader of the German Reich; of‹cial state title accorded to von Schirach in 1933 Jugendweihe consecration of youth; secular rite of passage comparable to con‹rmation that was customary within the working population, especially with members of the Communist party Jungmädel member of the JMB Jungmädelbund (JMB) organization within the League of German Girls; for girls ages ten to fourteen Jungmädelprobe Test introduced in 1935, in which a passing student was awarded a neckerchief and the leather knot; necessary to become a full-›edged member of the League of German Girls Küken chick; name for the youngest members of the League of German girls before 1933 Kultureinheit cultural units within the League of German Girls, such as a theatre group, an orchestra, or a choir Lebensgemeinschaftsschulen experimental and life-community schools; reform schools during the Weimar Republic Lebensreform life reform; movement started at the end of the nineteenth century in Germany 258 Glossary Lyzeum secondary school for girls Mädel member of the BDM, ages fourteen to eighteeen Mädelbund synonym for League of German Girls Mädelgruppe girls’ company Mädelring girls’ battalion Mädelschaft girls’ squad Mädelschar girls’ platoon Mittlere Reife intermediate high school certi‹cate, comparable to the British O-levels NS-Frauenschaft National Socialist Women’s Association NS Mädchenschaften National Socialist girls groups before 1933 NS Schülerbund National Socialist league of school children NS Schülerinnenbund National Socialist league of female school children Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher National Socialist German Students’ Studentenbund (NSDStB) League NSV National Socialist welfare organization P›ichtjahr obligatory year introduced in 1938 Pimpfe boys age ten to fourteen within the DJ Realschulen six-form high school leading to Mittlere Reife Reichsausschuss deutscher Committee of the German Youth Jugendvereine Reich Associations Reichsjugendführung leadership of the Hitler Youth Reichsleiter Reich leader; one of the highest positions within the Nazi leadership Reichsnährstand Reich Ministry for Nutrition Reichsreferentin des Bundes female head of the League of Deutscher Mädel German Girls Reichssportführer Reich sports leader Reichsstatthalter Reich governor Rotfrontkämpferbund Red Front Fighters League Sammelschulen collective schools Schwesternschaften sisterhoods Sondereinheiten special units Sonderscharen special groups Staatsarchiv München (StA München) State Archive in Munich Staatsjugendtag State Youth Day, introduced in 1934 Untergau district Obergau region Glossary 259 Verein für das Deutschtum im founded at the end of the nineteenth Ausland (VDA) century and still existing today for the purpose and welfare of Germans abroad; huge increase in membership after 1933 and nazi‹ed Volksschulen elementary schools Weltanschauliche Schulung ideological schooling 260 Glossary ...