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

Hitler and Stalin: Laurence Rees compares the actions of the two dictators over the course of the Second World War. (Image by Getty Images)

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Hitler and Stalin: tyrants at war

Frank McDonough discusses his new book charting the demise of Hitler’s Germany from 1940-45. (Image by Getty Images)

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The collapse of the Third Reich

Georg Elser, a little-known carpenter-turned-assassin whose daring attempt to kill Hitler almost succeeded

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Georg Elser: the man who nearly assassinated Hitler

Actress Lily James and actor Michael Huisman looking at each other in a still from the film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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Life under Nazi rule: the occupation of the Channel Islands

German writer Hans Fallada (1893–1947), pictured in 1934 with his son Uli in a carriage in Carwitz, Mecklenburg. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Germans who resisted the Nazis

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

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Laurence Rees on the perpetrators of the Holocaust: “What they told us was, at the time, they felt it was the right thing to do”

When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, huts designed to house about 30 people were found to be crammed with as many as 500. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Your guide to the Holocaust

The aftermath of Kristallnacht, when businesses and properties owned by Jews were the target of vicious Nazi mobs

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Life in Nazi Germany: everything you wanted to know

Daniel Lee on the HistoryExtra podcast.

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An ‘ordinary’ Nazi

Roger Moorhouse on the HistoryExtra podcast

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Poland 1939: The invasion that sparked WW2

Writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson at her home in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Alamy)

Isabel Wilkerson: “Caste is like the wind. You may not be able to see it, but it’s a quietly destructive force”

A mother and her children amid the smoking rubble of their city in 1940. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Hitler’s vengeance

A portrait of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler

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Why did the Second World War happen?

Sculpture of Noor Inayat Khan, the

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Noor Inayat Khan: why was the British spy such an unlikely war hero?

Some of the 5,000 Jewish and non-Aryan German child refugees, the 'Kindertransport', arriving in England at Harwich from Germany, 2 December 1938. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Revisiting the Kindertransport