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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.
Population of Germany by аge and sex (demographic pyramid) as of 16 June 1933 Population of Germany (includes Austria) by age and sex (demographic pyramid) as of 17 May 1939 Population of Germany (excludes Saar) by аge and sex (demographic pyramid) as on 29 October 1946. Many former German soldiers didn't participate.
The Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic followed different paths when it came to demographics. The politics of the German Democratic Republic was pronatalistic [15] while that of the Federal Republic was compensatory. Fertility in the GDR was higher than that in the FRG. Demographic politics was only one of the reasons.
The Greater Germanic Reich (German: Großgermanisches Reich), fully styled the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation (German: Großgermanisches Reich der Deutschen Nation), [4] was the official state name of the political entity that Nazi Germany tried to establish in Europe during World War II. [5]
A census in May 1939, six years into the Nazi era [1] and a year following the annexations of Austria and Czechoslovakia [2] into Germany, indicates [3] that 54% of the population considered itself Protestant, 41% considered itself Catholic, 3.5% self-identified as Gottgläubig [4] (lit. "believing in God"), [5] and 1.5% as "atheist". [4]
Nazi eugenicist Eugen Fischer, who was also a professor of anthropology and eugenics, thought that Germany's small black population should be sterilised in order to prevent them from mingling with ethnic German people. In 1937, approximately 400 mixed-ethnic children were forcibly sterilised in the Rhineland.
The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ), [1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה), was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels led the persecution of Catholic clergy in Germany. [62] Heinrich Himmler (left) and Reinhard Heydrich, heads of the Nazi security forces, were vehemently anti-Catholic. Martin Bormann, Hitler's private secretary, was a leading proponent of anti-clericalism. Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg despised ...