Not to be confused with Blockältester or Blockführer.
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Blockleiter (Block Warden), where block refers to city block, was from 1933 the title of a lower Nazi Party political rank responsible for the political supervision of a neighborhood. Referred to in common parlance as Blockwart, the Block Warden's duty was to form the primary link between the Nazi authorities and the general population. The derogatory term Blockwart ("snoop") survives in German colloquial language.
Blockleiter (Block Warden), where block refers to city block, was from 1933 the title of a lower Nazi Party political rank responsible for the political...
armbands were often used to denote those Nazis holding the positions of Blockleiter and Zellenleiter. A further political position, unique only to the local...
older Nazi rank of Blockleiter; however, a massive expansion of Nazi Party ranks in 1938 assigned the old duties of a Blockleiter to a rank known as Arbeitsleiter...
the Kreisleiter ("county leaders"), Zellenleiter ("cell leaders") and Blockleiter ("block leaders"). This was a strictly hierarchical structure in which...
assumption of national power, and first worked within the Party as a Blockleiter in Schildow. Lambert was not yet a member of any of the party's paramilitary...
early German campaigns against Poland, France, and the Soviet Union. Blockleiter – lowest official of the NSDAP, responsible for the political supervision...
the years of 1930 and 1945. A Zellenleiter was higher in rank than a Blockleiter and was in charge of a "Nazi Cell", composed of eight to twelve city...
to 480 households. Zellenleiters supervised the lowest local leaders, Blockleiters (Block Leaders) each of whom had charge of 40 to 60 households. As the...
Revolution (Cuba) Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (Burkina Faso) Blockleiter (Nazi Germany) Informal collaborator (East Germany) Voluntary People's...
Block warden may refer to: Nazi Blockleiter Block warden system first experimented during the 1957 Battle of Algiers (aka quadrillage), and which would...
consequences such as nagging by the appropriate official if your local Blockleiter saw that you were not wearing the current, appropriate pin by about Tuesday...
Sicherheitsdienst reports, a large-scale campaign in 1941, charging Nazi Blockleiter to visit the households in their area and attach warning paper tags to...
job in the camp's record keeping. At the end of 1944, he was appointed Blockleiter of the camp's Block 8 which housed children and youths under the age...
junior rank of Betriebsblockobmann existed as an assistant to the local Blockleiter. There was also a "Cell Operations Foreman" position, known as Betriebszellenobmann...
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