Nazi era

Hitler's German regime

The Nazi era is the period of Nazi rule in Germany, from Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933 through the regime's defeat in 1945.

The term appears in historical discussions of the Holocaust, World War II, and German history: artifacts from the Nazi era, policies implemented during the Nazi era.

Sometimes called the Third Reich or Hitler era.

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Nuremberg Laws · Hitler Youth · Adolf Hitler · Gestapo · propaganda · book burnings · book burning · totalitarianism · fascism · Lebensraum · Holocaust · Operation Barbarossa · Joseph Goebbels · censorship · Aryan · master race · racial purity · forced labor camps

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german historical periods

Nazi eraWeimar Republic

Germany's 1919-1933 parliamentary government

postwar Germany · German Empire · East Germany · West Germany · modern Germany

political character

Nazi eraliberal democracy

Rights-based elected governance

parliamentary democracy · open society · free society · constitutional democracy · constitutional republic

moral/historical valence

Nazi eraliberation

Release from constraint

postwar reconstruction · civil rights era · denazification · European integration

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