Nazi Germany

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1933 – 1945 · up to 3,309 thousand km² · Europe, Eastern Europe & Russia

Capital: Berlin

Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", was the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and the German Empire (1871–1918); the Nazis called it the Thousand-Year Reich, but it ended just 12 years later in May 1945, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered Berlin, ending World War II in Europe.

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Predecessors: Weimar Republic, Federal State of Austria, Free City of Danzig, Republic of Lithuania

Successors: American occupation zone in Germany, British occupation zone in Germany, French occupation zone in Germany, Soviet occupation zone of Germany

Events on its territory

• 1938 Discovery of nuclear fission
• 1938 Munich Agreement
• 1941–1945 The Holocaust
• 1943 Battle of Kursk
• 1944 D-Day: Normandy landings
• 1944 Warsaw Uprising