on those unable to work. Mehr sein als scheinen "Be more than you appear to be." – Motto applied to blades of uniform daggers worn by the Nationalpolitsche Erziehungsanstalten, or NPEA, the National Political Educational Establishment. Mein Kampf – "My Struggle", Adolf Hitler's autobiography and political statement. Meine Ehre heißt Treue "My honor is loyalty" – Motto applied to the belt buckles and the blades of uniform daggers worn by the Schutzstaffel, or SS. Meier – pejorative and humorous nickname for Hermann Göring who on 9 August 1939 exclaimed that he could be called Meier should any enemy planes appear over Germany. His self-assurance of air-superiority became laughable once the Allied powers established air dominance and began methodically bombing Germany during World War II. Metallspende des deutschen Volkes (Metal Donation of the German People) – program to collect various metals needed to support the German raw materials economy which was directed towards German armaments. Militärbefehlshaber – military Governor, who was the (single) head of the executive in an occupied country (when no Reichskommissar was appointed). Mischling – used in reference to an individual with alleged partial Jewish ancestry; some were treated as full-blooded Jews, others were subject to various restrictions. Mit brennender Sorge – An encyclical by Pope Pius XI warning against the Nazis. Mittelbau (Central Structure) – abbreviated code-name for Dora-Mittelbau or Mittelbau-Dora. It was an underground armament facility specifically designed to mass-produce the German Wunderwaffen ("wonder weapons") known as the V-1 and V-2 rockets free from Allied bombing attacks. Mittelbau was also considered a sub-camp to Buchenwald concentration camp since the majority of its forced laborers were from there. At its peak, 30,000 forced laborers worked in the facility. Mittelstand – Germans in the middle-class economic sphere which was made up of independent shopkeepers and craftsmen and was credited (through propaganda) with empowering the Nazis. Münchner Abkommen – Munich Agreement – an agreement reached between Great Britain, Germany, France, and Italy, signed in Munich on 29 September 1938, ceding the Sudetenland to Germany. Muselmann – "an inmate who had resigned himself to death and lost the will to do anything to help himself survive". (1) Mutterkreuz – see Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter. Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts, Der (Myth of the Twentieth Century) – polemical treatise written by Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg which espoused that all great culture in western civilization came from the minds of Germanic peoples but