– concentration camp inmates tasked with collecting dead bodies. Leichttraktor – "Light tractor". Code name for the Reichswehr's clandestine medium tank design. Leistungsgemeinschaft – performance community; part of the Nazi Gleichschaltung of social institutions. Lichtenburg – concentration camp near Kreis Torgau. It was closed down before the war and most of its inmates were sent to the concentration camps at either Buchenwald or Ravensbrück. Lidice – small mining town near Prague which was razed in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, since members of the town 'allegedly' aided the conspirators. All 172 men and older boys in the town were shot before it was destroyed. Lieberose – forced labor camp just north of Cottbus in the vicinity of Brandenburg. liquidieren ('liquidate') – the execution of political opponents by shooting. The term liquidieren literally refers to the conversion of goods to money or the dissolution of a business or financial interests. Luftschutzraum, Luftschutzkeller – air-raid shelter Luftsportverband (League for Aeronautic Sport) – name for the group of clubs devoted to civilian flying endeavors, but ended up being used by Hermann Göring to secretly train military pilots between 1933 and 1935. Luftwaffe – "Air force". The Wehrmacht air arm, officially founded 26 February 1935. Today, it is the air arm of the Bundeswehr. Luftwaffenhelfer (Luftwaffe Helpers; Flak Helpers) – official NS term for students who manned anti-aircraft weapons, lighting, and warning systems against Allied air attacks. Lügenpresse – "Lying press". Pejorative term for anti-Nazi mass media. Luther-Deutsche ('Luther Germans') – German Christians who, generally speaking, supported the Nazi regime wholeheartedly. M Machtergreifung ('seizure of power') – along with Machtübernahme ('take-over power'), referred to the acquisition of full political power when Hitler assumed the role of Chancellor on 30 January 1933. Madagaskarplan – Madagascar Plan – a scheme devised by the Nazis in 1940 to globally alleviate the perceived Jewish problem by shipping Jews en masse to the French colony known as the island of Madagascar. Instead of sending the Jews to Palestine, which the Nazis believed belonged to the Christians and Muslims, the idea was to hold them "hostage" so to speak, on Madagascar as a bargaining chip with the Americans. Financing this operation was to be conducted using funds forcibly appropriated from Jewish businesses, homes, and any other available capital assets in Jewish control. Since the plan rested on a peace treaty between France and by proxy, Britain, it was