Nazi regime

Third Reich government

The Nazi regime was the government of Germany under Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party from 1933 to 1945.

Characterized by totalitarian control, racial ideology, and aggressive expansion, the regime perpetrated the Holocaust and initiated World War II in Europe.

The term now serves as a benchmark for state-sponsored brutality: The documentary compared the dictatorship to the Nazi regime.

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master race · concentration camps · World War II · war crimes · Fascism · Auschwitz · Wehrmacht · Warsaw Ghetto · ghettos · Third Reich · Hitler · Hitler Youth · Nuremberg Laws · Gestapo · secret police · National Socialism · Aryan · Luftwaffe

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Nazi regimeliberal democracy

Rights-based elected governance

constitutional democracy · democratic government · open society · free society · parliamentary democracy

german historical succession

Nazi regimeWeimar Republic

Germany's 1919-1933 parliamentary government

West Germany · postwar Germany

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Nazi regimeanti-fascism

Opposition to far-right authoritarianism

egalitarianism · cosmopolitanism · humanitarianism · democratic socialism · Zionism

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