– propaganda term for the totality of measures involved in work creation. Because of its military and activist sound, Arbeitsschlacht was one of Hitler's favorite terms until 1937 (the de facto end of unemployment). It was patterned after the Fascist Italian battaglia per il grano ('battle for grain'). Ariernachweis – a Certificate of Descent (to show "Aryan" heritage) (popular name). Aryan – the Germanic "master race" or Übermensch, according to Nazi doctrine. Arisierung ('Aryanization') – the process of making something "Aryan" through the seizure of Jewish property in favour of a non-Jewish German. Asoziale ('asocial people') – during the Nazi era, the term was derogatory, akin to "scum" or the ballastexistenzen ('ballast-existences' – dead weight, waste-lives) of the socially marginalized, those considered by the Nazis to be undesirables. It included the homeless, migrant workers, beggars, vagrants, large families from the lower social strata, families from the edge of town, "like gypsy" migrants, the so-called "work shy", alcoholics, prostitutes and pimps. Gypsies (as they were called by the Nazis) were considered to be "foreign race asoziale". Aufbruch der Nation ('a new start for the nation') – nationalist interpretation of the beginning of the First World War; it was adopted by the "National Socialist Revolution" to emphasize the overcoming of the party state and of pluralism. This was a parallel concept to the National Rising (Erhebung). Aufsichtsverwaltung – supervisory administration' Auschwitz – a town near Kraków in southern Poland that was the site of the largest Nazi concentration camps. ausgebombt ('bombed out') – people rendered homeless due to the Allied bombing campaign against Germany during World War II. Auslandsdeutsche ('Germans in foreign countries') – people of Germanic blood who spent their formative years in a German community abroad. Nazi doctrine held that such people were still entitled to the full rights of being German, especially those who remained affiliated with the Fatherland. A considerable number of them were in the United States and Argentina. Auslandsnachrichtendienst – intelligence service covering foreign countries. This was one of the functions of the SD as Amt VI of the RSHA. Auslandsorganisation (AO; 'Organization for Foreigners') – a NSDAP organization tasked to supervise Germans abroad. Ausrichtung ('alignment') – a favorite NS word, borrowed from military usage, for external and internal "normalization" of the movement's followers. External uniformity of dress corresponded to inner ideological alignment regarding NS goals. Ausrottungsmaßnahmen – extermination measures. Außenpolitisches Amt (APA; 'Foreign Policy Office')