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Slang words, OTL terms from Nazi Germany, and new concepts in How many Sixes does Adolf Nazi have to Roll?

  • 150%ers ("hundertfuffzigprozentiger"): Someone who is that much convinced of the Nazi regime. Often even doubled to 300%ers (dreihundertprozentiger).
  • A8: German rocket model, later development based on the A4, our history's V2. The A stands for "Aggregat".
  • Altreich: Usually, Germany in the borders of 1937, but the term is fleeting.
  • Blitzmädel: Young women who worked during the war for the Wehrmacht, mostly for transferring messages
  • Bonbon: The Nazi party button with the swastika so many people wear ostensively on their lapel.
  • Bonzokratie: "Rule of the bigwigs", derogatory term
  • Breitspurbahn: Railroads with a track width of four meters, one of the most favorite project of the "Führer".
  • Bummelfritz: "Slow Fritz", mild insult
  • Burgwagen: "Castle wagon/car" - similar like a caravan for campers, advertised as "Your private castle!"
  • Continent of the clueless: The part of Nazi-ruled post-war Europe in which the reception of radio/TV of free countries (Britain, Sweden, Switzerland) isn't possible.
  • Eigentlichkeit: A philosophical concept conceived by Martin Heidegger. In OTL, it became (in)famous as "authenticity" after being filtered through the texts of Jean-Paul Sartre. In this history, people rather (over)use the original term.
  • Flakhelfer: Helpers of the anti-air troops, often still in the Hitler Youth. Drafted during the later years of the World War, when more and more Allied bombs fell on German cities.
  • Fresswelle: "Feeding wave" - after the war, Germany finally produced more food than its population needed, and the population didn't hesitate to take it.
  • Generation Wehrmacht/Generation Hitler Youth/Greater Germanic Generation: The age cohorts with birth years 1901-23 / 1924-41 / 1942-? respectively
  • German Riviera: How the Nazis want the Crimean coast to be known after the area's Germanisation
  • GGR: Common abbreviation for "Großgermanisches Reich", the Greater Germanic Reich
  • Goldfasan: "Golden pheasant", how the highest Nazis are nicknamed
  • Indienhilfe: "Help for India" - after agronomy methods were improved, German harvests exploded, so the surplus was given to India, in connection with teaching Nazi ideology
  • Itaka-Hemden: Cotton t-shirts (from Italian Egypt), initially in monochrome but flashy colors (at this time, something new).
  • Jagdverschwörung: "Hunting conspiracy", a conspiracy of high-ranked Nazis.
  • Kinderlandverschickung: Like the Blitz evacuees in Britain, many German kids (especially from the bigger cities) were sent to the East of the Reich (mostly rural areas) during World War 2, where they were safe from Allied bombings.
  • Knif/kakfif: Abbreviation for "Kommt nicht in Frage" (There's no way for that) or "Kommt auf keinen Fall in Frage" (There's absolutely no way for that) respectively.
  • Langweiliger Peter: Lit. "Boring Peter", but actually meaning "slow Peter", mild insult
  • Mutterkreuz: A special medal for mothers who have born many children. Bronze medal for four, silver for six, gold for eight.
  • Nationalfilzismus: Pun, meaning "National graftism", attacking Nazi corruption
  • Nazisse: Pun on "Nazi" and "Narzisse" (daffodil). A female Nazi.
  • Oceanic Nations (ON): A mixture of United Nations, NATO, and EEC from OTL centered on the Anglosphere and Latin America
  • Orpo/Kripo/Sipo: The three branches of the police: The Sicherheitspolizei, the feared security police; the Kriminalpolizei, criminal police; and the Ordnungspolizei, having to deal with writing traffic tickets, arresting bums and drunks, and so on.
  • Plankalkül: First practical programming language, developed by Konrad Zuse, inventor of the modern computer, the use of the binary system and the floating point operations for it.
  • Polenwall: The German-settled stretch of land along the new eastern border of the Reich, separating the Poles in the "Generalgouvernement" from their brothers living in the "Corridor".
  • Polnische Wirtschaft: "Polish economy", derogatory name for the way economy is done in Poland, whether it's true or not
  • Radfahrer: "Bicyclist", someone who bends over with his upper half (as in, to his superiors) and kicks down with his lower half (to his inferiors).
  • Reichsheini: "Reich's Hank", derogatory nickname for SS leader Heinrich Himmler, even used by his SS
  • Reichsspritzenmeister: Derogatory nickname (coined by Hermann Göring) for Adolf Nazi's doctor Theo Morell
  • Reichs-/Volksdeutsche: People of German stock who lived inside/outside the Reich in the borders of when the World War started respectively
  • Siedlungsmark/-stützpunkt: Settlement march/base. Area in Eastern Europe which is to be Germanized by 50% (Marken) or 25% (Stützpunkte) respectively.
  • Sonnis: Short for "Sonnenblumenkerne", sunflower seeds. Became a common brand.
  • Spiegelei (fried egg): The golden version of the "Bonbon" (see above).
  • Sweding: This history's term for what we'd call "Finlandization" - here, a nation threatened to succumb to the Reich's influence
  • Welteislehre: A pseudoscience developed by a Hanns Hörbiger who claimed that the whole universe was created by the forces of fire and ice, that Earth's Moon was made of ice too, and will fall on Earth in the future - as has happened many times. Oh, and the Mars will become the last moon of Earth. Recommended by Adolf Nazi.
  • Wüstenfüchse: "Desert foxes" - Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS soldiers who fought in northern Africa and the Near East. Named in honor of Erwin Rommel.
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