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"'''The System'''" ([[German language|German]]: ''Das System'') was a derogatory term used by the [[NSDAP|Nazis]] to denote contemptuously the [[Weimar Republic]], whose official name was [[German Reich]] (Deutsches Reich), and its institutions.<ref name="berning">Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: ''Vokabular des Nationalsozialismus.'' 2. durchges. u. überarb, Aufl. Berlin 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-11-019549-1}}, pp. 597-598.</ref> In [[Nazi propaganda|Nazi publications and propaganda]], the word was used in a number of [[Compound (linguistics)|compounds]]: for example, the period from the [[German Revolution of 1918–1919]] to the Nazi seizure of power (German: ''[[Machtergreifung]]'') in 1933 was called "The time of the System" (German: ''Systemzeit'') and political opponents of the Nazis from this period were called "System parties", "System politicians" or the "System press".<ref name="berning"/> After the Nazi takeover, the term was quickly adopted to everyday use.<ref name="klemperer">[[Victor Klemperer]] (2006), ''LTI, [[Lingua Tertii Imperii]]: a philologist's notebook'', Continuum International Publishing Group, {{ISBN|0-8264-9130-8}}, p. 91</ref> |
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Another Nazi phrase used for the republic and its politicians was "the [[November criminals]]" or "the regime of the November criminals" (German: ''November-Verbrecher''), referring to the month the republic was founded in.<ref name="wires">Richard Wires (1985), ''Terminology of the Third Reich'', Ball State University, p. 44</ref> This term was used also by other nationalistic right-wing groups.<ref name="wires"/> |
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==References== |
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*[http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/stuerzt-das-system.htm ''Bring Down the System!'' Campaign pamphlet for the [[German federal election, July 1932|1932 Reichstag election]]] |
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130309112425/http://www.geschichteinchronologie.ch/eu/3R/propaganda-2wk-d/plakat011-weim-rep-gebt-dem-system-die-antwort-waehlt-H-1932.jpg Election poster: ''Germans, give the System your answer! Vote for Hitler!] |
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[[Category:Nazi terminology]] |
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[[Category:Politics of the Weimar Republic]] |
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