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Nazi Germany, [i] officially known as the German Reich [j] and later the Greater German Reich, [k] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
NS Gemeinschaft Kraft durch Freude (German for 'Strength Through Joy'; KdF) was a German NSDAP-operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany. [1] It was part of the German Labour Front (German: Deutsche Arbeitsfront), the national labour organization at that time.
The defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 freed approximately 11 million foreigners (categorized as "displaced persons"), most of whom were forced labourers and POWs. During the war, German forces brought into the Reich 6.5 million civilians, in addition to Soviet POWs, for unfree labour in factories. [ 1 ]
Forced labor was an important and ubiquitous aspect of the Nazi concentration camps which operated in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe between 1933 and 1945. It was the harshest and most inhumane part of a larger system of forced labor in Nazi Germany.
Inside Nazi Germany at IMDb; Genzlinger, Neil, "'March of Time' Documentary Series Is Revisited"; The New York Times, September 2, 2010; on YouTube; Inside Nazi Germany at the Library of Congress "Movie of the Week: The March of Time — Inside Nazi Germany; Life, January 31, 1938
The Bavarian People's Party government was overthrown by a Nazi coup on 9 March 1933, [48] and the dissolution of the Centre Party in early July left Germany without a Catholic party for the first time; [48] the Reichskonkordat prohibited clergy from participating in politics. [118]
The Reich Bride Schools (German: Reichsbräuteschule) were institutions established in Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. They were created to train young women to be "perfect Nazi brides", [1] indoctrinated in Nazi ideology and educated in housekeeping skills.
Operas debuting in Germany include Kurt Weill's Der Jasager, Ernst Krenek's Leben des Orest and Arnold Schoenberg's Von heute auf morgen. Fritz Reck-Malleczewen's comedy novel Bomben auf Monte Carlo is published. Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte, a cultural journal of the Nazi Party edited by Alfred Rosenberg, publishes its first issue.