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Map of NS administrative division in 1944 Gaue of the Nazi Party in 1926, 1928, 1933, 1937, 1939 and 1943. The Gaue (singular: Gau) were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. The Gaue were formed in 1926 as Nazi Party regional districts in Weimar Germany based on the territorial changes after the First World War. [1]
The Southern states joined the federal state in 1870/71, which was consequently renamed the German Empire (1871–1918). The state continued as the Weimar Republic (1919–1933). Present-day Germany is a federal republic which combines the States of Germany .
However, long-held sentiments against France remained entrenched, with very few sympathizing openly with France. When the 15-year-term was over, a plebiscite was held in the territory on 13 January 1935: 90.3% of those voting wished to join Germany. On 17 January 1935, the territory's re-union with Germany was approved by the League Council.
German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty (Second Partition of Eastern Europe: Exchange of Lithuania to USSR, and Central Poland to Nazi Germany) German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement (Final Partition of Eastern Europe: Baltic states, Eastern Poland, Bessarabia and Bukovina annexed to USSR.
Gau Bayreuth (until June 1942, Gau Bayerische Ostmark, 'Bavarian Eastern March') was an administrative division of Nazi Germany formed by the 19 January 1933 merger of Gaue in Lower Bavaria, Upper Palatinate and Upper Franconia, Bavaria. It was in existence from 1933 to 1945.
The states of the Weimar Republic were effectively abolished after the establishment of Nazi Germany in 1933 by a series of laws and decrees between 1933 and 1935, and autonomy was replaced by direct rule of the National Socialist German Workers' Party in the Gleichschaltung process.
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.
30 January – Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. 1 February – Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation to the German People" in Berlin. 27 February – The Reichstag, Germany's parliament building in Berlin, is set on fire under controversial circumstances.