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2 days ago · The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after only 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe.
4 days ago · Third Reich, official Nazi designation for the regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945, as the presumed successor of the Holy Roman Empire (800–1806; First Reich) and the German Empire (1871–1918; Second Reich). Learn more about the history and significance of the Third Reich in this article.
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1 day ago · Third Reich - Defeat, Nazi Germany, Holocaust: By the end of 1943 at the latest, Germany’s defeat seemed certain to many of its own military leaders. The fact that the war continued for another 18 months, at terrible cost, was due to the refusal of Hitler to admit defeat and his determination to drag down Germany and half of Europe ...
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4 days ago · Third Reich - Nazi Germany, Holocaust, WW2: At the height of his success, Hitler was the master of the greater part of the European continent. German rule in the east was extended to wide areas of the Baltic states, Belorussia (now Belarus), Ukraine, and European Russia; Poland and the protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia; Serbia and ...
2 days ago · Historians, Hoyer argues, have tended to view the Kaiserreich as a mere prelude to the Third Reich: seeing in it the authoritarianism, top-down bureaucracy, rising nationalism, and xenophobia that would assume colossal proportions under Hitler (p. 52).
4 days ago · The Hitler Youth movement estranged a generation from churches. “Church services are held under observation of the Gestapo, the state secret police. Clergymen who have held services outside the church confines in order to escape police supervision have been arrested and sent to concentration camps.” (p208) Church leaders and members were ...
16 hours ago · In the East, the Nazis engaged some 3 200 warplanes against the Soviet air force, in the West, the Reich had only 160 warplanes against the combined US and UK forces.
