Storm Front

Appendix: German Words

Abwehr – German Military Intelligence

Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM) – League of German Girls/Band of German Maidens, female wing of the Hitler Youth.

Einsatzgruppen – SS extermination squads

Gastarbeiter – Guest Worker

Germanica – Moscow, renamed after the war

Hauptsturmfuehrer – SS rank, roughly equal to Captain.

Heer – The German Army

Herrenvolk – Master Race

Kriegsmarine – The German Navy

Luftwaffe – The German Air Force

Mutterkreuz – Mother’s Cross

Oberfeldwebel – Heer rank, roughly equal to Master Sergeant

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW, ‘Supreme Command of the Armed Forces’) – The German General Staff.

Obergruppenfuehrer – SS rank, roughly equal to Lieutenant General.

Ordnungspolizei – Order Police (regular police force)

Reichsführer-SS – Commander of the SS

Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) – Reich Main Security Office

Sigrunen – SS insignia (lightning bolts)

Standartenfuehrer – SS rank, roughly equal to Colonel.

Sturmbannfuehrer – SS rank, roughly equal to Major.

Strumscharfuehrer – SS rank, roughly equal to Master Sergeant.

Untermensch – Subhuman.

Untermenschen – Subhumans, plural of Untermensch.

Unterscharfuehrer – SS rank, roughly equal to Second Lieutenant.

Vaterland – Fatherland

Volk – The German Population.

Wehrmacht – The German Military (often taken to represent just the army (Heer)).