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

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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Sculpture of Noor Inayat Khan, the

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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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German Chancellor Adolf Hitler reviews storm troopers

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How did the Nazi party rise to power in Germany in 1933? And what were Hitler’s motivations?

A photograph of Rudolph Hoess during his trial in Warsaw in 1947. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Rudolf Höss & the men behind the mass murder at Auschwitz

Left: Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in German-occupied Poland, in June 1944. Between May and July that year, more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to the camp complex. Right: Prisoners at Dachau celebrate the liberation of the camp by US soldiers on 29 April 1945. The camp was used again after the war to house SS personnel awaiting trial, and then German refugees. (Photos by Getty Images and Alamy)

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Aftermath of the Holocaust: how Europe dealt with the crimes of the Third Reich

Young Nazi supporters wave flags in the Saar territory in Germany, 1934. (Photo by Getty Images)

Everything you ever wanted to know about Nazi Germany, but were afraid to ask

Swastika on a lotus background

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Why did Hitler choose the swastika, and how did a Sanskrit symbol become a Nazi emblem?

B-17 bombers make their way to England to aid the British in WW2, April 1942. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Firemen tackling a blitz fire at St Paul's Cathedral, London

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Expelled Germans leaving Poland's western territories

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Otto Wächter pictured with his family, 1944. (Photo by Orion Publishing Group)

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A Nazi mystery

The Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were forced to live before they were sent to concentration camps as part of Adolf Hitler’s ‘final solution’. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

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The Jews who fought back: the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Prisoners at Bergen-Belsen

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A brief history of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne Frank died