Nazi Germany
Hitler's totalitarian state
Nazi Germany is the German state under Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist (Nazi) Party from 1933 to 1945.
Also called the Third Reich.
The regime established a totalitarian dictatorship, persecuted Jews and other minorities, and initiated World War II in Europe.
The term appears in historical contexts: Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939. (See also Nazi.)
Ultranationalist dictatorial political system
- antisemitismBigotry toward Jewish people
- AryanIndo-European linguistic ancestor
- racial purityIdeology of ethnic exclusivity
- eugenicsControlled human reproduction theory
Lebensraum · Führer · totalitarianism · nationalism · propaganda · master race · Übermensch · Gleichschaltung
Nazi Germany's totalitarian leader
- GoebbelsThird Reich propaganda minister
- ReichstagGerman parliamentary assembly
- chancelleryGovernment's executive office
- BrownshirtsNazi paramilitary organization
Systematic annihilation of a people
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- concentration campFacility for mass political detention
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
- gas chamberSealed execution room using poison
deportation · ghetto · Treblinka · Dachau · Buchenwald · crematorium · Zyklon B · death march
Fast, overwhelming military campaign
- LuftwaffeGerman military aviation
- panzerGerman armored fighting vehicle
- Eastern FrontSoviet-German combat theater
- U-boatUndersea warship from Germany
Stuka · invasion · occupation · Stalingrad · Normandy · Afrika Korps · V-2 rocket · Enigma
Eliminating fascist ideology institutionally
- war crimesIllegal acts during conflict
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
- divisionSplitting into parts
- reconstructionRebuilding after destruction
displaced persons · liberation · Cold War · accountability · remembrance · memorial · restitution
Staunch factional supporters
- White RoseColorless variety of Rosa
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- sabotageDeliberate disruption of operations
- SchindlerHolocaust rescuer, German businessman
hiding · smuggling · uprising · Warsaw Ghetto · dissent · defiance · escape
fascism
Ultranationalist dictatorial political system
- antisemitismBigotry toward Jewish people
- AryanIndo-European linguistic ancestor
- racial purityIdeology of ethnic exclusivity
eugenics · Lebensraum · Führer · totalitarianism · nationalism · propaganda · master race · Übermensch · Gleichschaltung · blood and soil
Hitler
Nazi Germany's totalitarian leader
- GoebbelsThird Reich propaganda minister
- ReichstagGerman parliamentary assembly
- chancelleryGovernment's executive office
genocide
Systematic annihilation of a people
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- concentration campFacility for mass political detention
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
gas chamber · deportation · ghetto · Treblinka · Dachau · Buchenwald · crematorium · Zyklon B · death march · Kristallnacht
blitzkrieg
Fast, overwhelming military campaign
- LuftwaffeGerman military aviation
- panzerGerman armored fighting vehicle
- Eastern FrontSoviet-German combat theater
U-boat · Stuka · invasion · occupation · Stalingrad · Normandy · Afrika Korps · V-2 rocket · Enigma · artillery
denazification
Eliminating fascist ideology institutionally
- war crimesIllegal acts during conflict
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
- divisionSplitting into parts
reconstruction · displaced persons · liberation · Cold War · accountability · remembrance · memorial · restitution
partisans
Staunch factional supporters
- White RoseColorless variety of Rosa
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- sabotageDeliberate disruption of operations
Schindler · hiding · smuggling · uprising · Warsaw Ghetto · dissent · defiance · escape
- 20th CenturyWorld War I aftermath, Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic bomb, New Deal, Spanish Civil War
- European HistoryFrench Revolution, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Industrial Revolution
- WWIID-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Hiroshima, Holocaust
- Former StatesPrussia, Czechoslovakia, Austria-Hungary, Soviet Union, Byzantine Empire
- Jewish HistoryHolocaust, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon
- 20th Century EuropeWorld War I, interwar, Holocaust, Berlin Wall, Iron Curtain
Nazi Germanyliberal democracy
Rights-based elected governance
democratic republic · constitutional democracy · democratic socialism · constitutional republic · free society
Nazi GermanyWeimar Republic
Germany's 1919-1933 parliamentary government
West Germany · postwar Germany · modern Germany · East Germany
Nazi GermanyAllied Powers
Coalition against fascist aggressors
United States · United Kingdom · Soviet Union · Free France · Free World
Germany, swastika, Nazi, Gestapo, Nazism, Wehrmacht, Nazi-like