System (national socialism)
National Socialists used the term system to describe the Weimar Republic and - in Austria - the Austro-Fascist “ corporate state ” under Engelbert Dollfuss and his successor Kurt Schuschnigg .
In derogatory and contemptuous terms, system time was a widespread term used by the National Socialists in the German Reich to describe the period from 1918 to the " seizure of power " in 1933. In Austria, on the other hand, the term was used for the period from the NSDAP's ban on activities in June 1933 to the “ Anschluss ” in 1938. Other compound words such as system party , system politician , system official or system press were common in the language of the National Socialists.
use
“But when the National Socialist says 'the system', he only means the system of the Weimar Constitution . In this special application of the LTI - no, rather expanded to denote the entire period from 1918 to 1933 - the word became popular very quickly ... "
In the election manifesto of the NSDAP in the pejorative sense was the term "system time" in the 1920s also: in March 1932, was called "The leader [...] today calls on behalf of this people, the system in its place." Conservative and nationalist circles have been used .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: Vocabulary of National Socialism. 2. through u. revised Berlin 2007 edition, ISBN 978-3-11-019549-1 , p. 597.
- ↑ Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: Vocabulary of National Socialism. P. 599.
- ^ Victor Klemperer: LTI - notebook of a philologist. Leipzig 1975, ISBN 3-379-00125-2 , p. 127.
- ↑ Walther Hofer (Ed.): National Socialism - Documents 1933-1945 . Revised New edition, Frankfurt / M. 1982, ISBN 3-596-26084-1 , p. 23.
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Hermann Graml , Hermann Weiß (eds.): Encyclopedia of National Socialism . Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-33007-4 , p. 756.