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Between December 1941-April 1943 and June 1944-January 1945 at least 153,000 people were killed in the camp. 11 December — Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. 19 December — Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army .
In 1941, around 280 million people in Europe, more than half the population, were governed by Germany or their allies and puppet states. [3] It comprised an area of 3,300,000 km 2 (1,300,000 sq mi). [1] Outside of Europe, German forces controlled areas of North Africa, including Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia between 1940 and 1945.
German-occupied Europe at the height of the Axis conquests in 1942 Gaue, Reichsgaue and other administrative divisions of Germany proper in January 1944. According to the Treaty of Versailles, the Territory of the Saar Basin was split from Germany for at least 15 years. In 1935, the Saarland rejoined Germany in a lawful way after a plebiscite.
German advances from June to August 1941. The initial momentum of the German ground and air attack completely destroyed the Soviet organisational command and control within the first few hours, paralyzing every level of command from the infantry platoon to the Soviet High Command in Moscow. [214]
An illustration of Greater Germanic Reich suggested by Nazi authorities in the propaganda map "Das Grossdeutschland in der Zukunft" (1943). The map depicts occupied Eastern Europe as a colony of Nordic-Germanic settlers. [47] This title was assumed by Hitler on 23 June 1941, at the suggestion of Himmler. [46]
After the war, Germany's and Austria-Hungary's loss of territory and the rise of communism in the Soviet Union meant that more Germans than ever constituted sizable minorities in various countries. [clarification needed] German nationalists used the existence of large German minorities in other countries as a basis for territorial claims.
1941: Soviet defenders at the Battle of Rostov, Commonwealth troops of South Asian descent operate an anti-aircraft gun during the Western Desert campaign, a British torpedo bomber returns from attacking the German battleship Bismarck, an American battleship burns after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
De facto administrative divisions of Nazi Germany in 1944. De jure administrative divisions of Nazi Germany in 1944 Länder (states) of Weimar Germany, 1919–1937. Map of NS administrative division in 1944 Gaue of the Nazi Party in 1926, 1928, 1933, 1937, 1939 and 1943.