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4 days ago · Third Reich, official Nazi designation for the regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945, as the presumed successor of the medieval and early modern Holy Roman Empire of 800 to 1806 (the First Reich) and the German Empire of 1871 to 1918 (the Second Reich).
- Peaceful” Annexations
Third Reich - Annexations, Expansion, Hitler: Hitler’s first...
- The Totalitarian Police State
Third Reich - Totalitarianism, Police State, Nazi: The years...
- The Nazi Empire
Third Reich - Nazi Germany, Holocaust, WW2: At the height of...
- The Beginning of Defeat
Third Reich - Defeat, Nazi Germany, Holocaust: By the end of...
- Invasion, Soviet Union, 1941
Third Reich - Invasion, Soviet Union, 1941: With the...
- Peaceful” Annexations
2 days ago · The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after only 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe.
4 days ago · Third Reich - Nazi Germany, Holocaust, WW2: At the height of his success, Hitler was the master of the greater part of the European continent. German rule in the east was extended to wide areas of the Baltic states, Belorussia (now Belarus), Ukraine, and European Russia; Poland and the protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia; Serbia and ...
1 day ago · Third Reich - Nazi Revolution, Enabling Act, Dictatorship: On the night of February 27, the Reichstag building was destroyed by fire. On the pretext of a Communist plot to seize power, the constitutional guarantees of individual liberty were suspended and the Reich government given emergency powers.
1 day ago · In his book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, journalist and historian William L. Shirer wrote that the DNVP's status as a far-right party rather than a mainstream conservative party was one of the main reasons for the Weimar Republic's downfall.
2 days ago · Historians, Hoyer argues, have tended to view the Kaiserreich as a mere prelude to the Third Reich: seeing in it the authoritarianism, top-down bureaucracy, rising nationalism, and xenophobia that would assume colossal proportions under Hitler (p. 52).
5 days ago · When it was used in Germany during the Third Reich era, it referred specifically to the desire of the Nazis to redraw the state borders within Europe, thereby transforming the existing geopolitical structures.
