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The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, [m] ended in May 1945, after only 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe.
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The Reich capitalized on the Nazi–Soviet Pact to put an end Stalin's policy of the anti-fascist popular front. This shift reignited internal left-wing conflicts and Stalinist hostility toward non-Marxist-Leninist socialists, who Stalin dismissed as "social-fascists".
Another name that was popular during this period was the term Tausendjähriges Reich ("Thousand-Year Reich"), the millennial connotations of which suggested that Nazi Germany would last a thousand years.
He characterized the war as a "fight for the whole of Europe and, thereby, for the whole of civilized humanity" and a race war between Jews and "Aryans" before referencing the prophecy [124] [m] and added, "The hour will come, when the most evil enemy of the world of all time will have played his last part in Europe for at least a thousand years."
On 30 January 1933, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reichskanzler. The new Reichskanzler Hitler addresses the German nation in a call of the Reichsregierung, broadcast over all German transmitters on 1 February the same year.
Hitler's political views were formed during three periods; namely (1) his years as a poverty-stricken young man in Vienna and Munich prior to World War I, during which he turned to nationalist-oriented political pamphlets and antisemitic newspapers out of distrust for mainstream newspapers and political parties; (2) the closing months of World ...
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