enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany

    With the outbreak of World War II, the SS Einsatzgruppen units followed the army into Poland and the Soviet Union, where from 1941 to 1945 they murdered more than two million people, including 1.3 million Jews. [232] A third of the Einsatzgruppen members were recruited from Waffen-SS personnel.

  3. Government of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Nazi_Germany

    Through successive Reichsstatthalter decrees, Germany's states were effectively replaced by Nazi provinces called Gaue. After June 1941 as World War II progressed, Hitler became preoccupied with military matters and spent most of his time at his military headquarters on the eastern front. This led Hitler to rely more and more on Bormann to ...

  4. Comparative ranks of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_ranks_of_Nazi...

    The comparative ranks of Nazi Germany contrasts the ranks of the Wehrmacht to a number of national-socialist organisations in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in a synoptic table. Nazi organisations used a hierarchical structure, according to the so-called Führerprinzip (leader principle), and were oriented in line with the rank order system of ...

  5. Wehrmacht - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht

    The Wehrmacht directed combat operations during World War II (from 1 September 1939 – 8 May 1945) as the German Reich's armed forces umbrella command-organization. After 1941 the OKH became the de facto Eastern Theatre higher-echelon command-organization for the Wehrmacht , excluding Waffen-SS except for operational and tactical combat purposes.

  6. Fascism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

    Benito Mussolini, dictator of Fascist Italy (left), and Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany (right), were fascist leaders.. Fascism (/ ˈ f æ ʃ ɪ z əm / FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, [1] [2] [3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a ...

  7. Axis leaders of World War II - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_leaders_of_World_War_II

    He later became Germany's Führer from 1934 until his suicide in 1945. Hitler came to power during Germany's period of crisis after the Great War which occurred between the 1920s and early 1930s. During his rule, Germany became a fascist state with a policy of anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust.

  8. Nazi Party - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party

    Nazi members with military ambitions were encouraged to join the Waffen-SS, but a great number enlisted in the Wehrmacht and even more were drafted for service after World War II began. Early regulations required that all Wehrmacht members be non-political and any Nazi member joining in the 1930s was required to resign from the Nazi Party.

  9. New Order (Nazism) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Order_(Nazism)

    The New Order (German: Neuordnung) of Europe collectively refers to various political and social concepts Nazi Germany sought to impose on German-occupied Europe and beyond. Planning for the Neuordnung commenced prior to World War II, but Adolf Hitler first proclaimed a "European New Order" January 30th, 1941. [1] [non-primary source needed]