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Germany's territorial control at its greatest extent during World War II ... Nazi Germany, [i] ... Germany assumed full control in France in 1942, Italy in 1943, and ...
German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
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.
The Nazi regime eventually collapsed, and the four Allies occupied Germany. Nazi annexations from the time of its annexation of Austria on 13 March 1938 were annulled while the former eastern territories of Germany before Nazi annexation of Austria were ceded to Poland and the Soviet Union and the Oder and Neisse Rivers became Germany's new ...
The Greater Germanic Reich (German: Großgermanisches Reich), fully styled the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation (German: Großgermanisches Reich der Deutschen Nation), [2] was the official state name of the political entity that Nazi Germany tried to establish in Europe during World War II. [3]
Nazi Germany was established in January 1933 with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, followed by suspension of basic rights with the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act which gave Hitler's regime the power to pass and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or German president, and de facto ended with ...
However, also Nazi Germany wanted to develop a Paternalist strategy towards the African inhabitants, trying to transform them in "loyal pupils" by a cultural Germanization and economically developing them to the extent that it was useful to the white Germans, based in the threatment that Afro-Germans had in the German Africa Show (a Nazi ...
Gau is an archaic Germanic term for a region within a country, often a former or actual province, and used in Medieval times as roughly corresponding to an English shire.The term was revived by the Nazi Party in the 1920s as the name given to the regional associations of the party in Weimar Germany, based mainly along state and district lines.