Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany (aka the Third Reich) is the common English name for Germany between 1933 and 1945 when the country was ruled by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party. Following his appointment as chancellor in 1933, Hitler and his Nazi government soon assumed dictatorial powers and tried to control and impose Nazi values on all aspects of people’s political, social and working lives, using propaganda and persecution

Aerial view of the outside of Treblinka extermination camp, Germany, 1943. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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Count von Stauffenberg

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Businessman Oskar Schindler speaks about saving lives during the Holocaust of Germany's Third Reich at an interview. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Sir Oswald Mosley taking the salute from female members of the BUF

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German soldiers watch a farmhouse they have burned during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941

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Deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, German officer Paul Schmidt and Adolf Hitler survey damage at Hitler's eastern front military headquarters, ‘the Wolf’s Lair’, hours after a failed bombing attempt by Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Sudeten-Germans Salute the Arrival of Nazi Guards in Czechoslovakia, 1938

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Stuka dive bombers fly in formation over France in May 1940

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Wehrmacht soldiers on parade, 1937

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Woman waving a union jack flag emblazoned with a swastika

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Illustration of Johnny Hopper by Stavros Damos for BBC History Magazine

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A scene from the German film 'Ways to Strength and Beauty', 1925. (Ullstein Bild via Getty Images)

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