Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

The period from 1933 to 1945 in German history in which Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party were in power. Under Hitler's rule, Germany was transformed into a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life were controlled by the state. Nazi Germany ceased to exist after the Allied Forces defeated the Wehrmacht in May 1945, thus ending World War II in Europe.

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Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer

History; Nazi Germany

One people, one nation, one leader; one of the most-repeated slogans of the NSDAP

Unternehmen Walküre

History; Nazi Germany

Operation Valkyrie. Originally a Replacement Army emergency plan for maintaining order in the event of an internal revolt, it was quietly altered by a group officers led by Generaloberst Ludwig Beck, ...

Z-Plan

History; Nazi Germany

Or Plan-Z, was the name given to the re-equipment and expansion of the Kriegsmarine (Nazi German Navy) as ordered by Adolf Hitler on 27 January 1939. The plan called for 10 battleships, four aircraft ...

Ordnungspolizei (Orpo)

History; Nazi Germany

Order police. The regular uniformed police after their nationalization in 1936.

Ordnungsdienst

History; Nazi Germany

Order service, ghetto police made up of Jewish ghetto residents.

Übermensch

History; Nazi Germany

Over-human or "higher human"—an idea appropriated from the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and used by Nazis to label the Germanic "Aryan" people which Nazis considered racially and culturally superior. ...

Volk

History; Nazi Germany

People, folk-community, nation, or ethnic group. It is extremely difficult to convey the full meaning of this word in English. It implies a "volk community" rooted in the soil of the heimat ...