Editing Nacht und Nebel (section)

==Name==
The alliterative [[hendiadys]] ''Nacht und Nebel'' ([[German language|German]] for "Night and Fog") is documented in German since the beginning of the 17th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://woerterbuchnetz.de/cgi-bin/WBNetz/wbgui_py?sigle=DWB&mode=Vernetzung&lemid=GN01211#XGN01211|title = Wörterbuchnetz}}</ref> It was used by Wagner in ''[[Das Rheingold]]'' (1869) and has since been adopted into everyday German (e.g., it appears in [[Thomas Mann]]'s ''[[The Magic Mountain]]''). It is not clear whether the term ''Nacht-und-Nebel-Erlass'' ("Night and Fog directive") had been in wide circulation or used publicly before 1945. The designation "NN" was sometimes used, however, to refer to prisoners and deportees ("NN-Gefangener", "NN-Häftling", "NN-Sache") at the time.