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  2. Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, [m] ended in May 1945, after only 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by the President of the Weimar Republic Paul von Hindenburg on 30 January 1933, the ...

  3. Adolf Hitler's rise to power - Wikipedia

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    Hitler later initiated a purge of these elements and reaffirmed the Nazi Party's pro-business stance. By 1922 Hitler's control over the party was unchallenged, and he attempted a coup, the Beer Hall Putsch, in Bavaria one year later. After the coup's failure, Hitler was arrested and put on trial.

  4. Oberkommando der Wehrmacht - Wikipedia

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    With the start of World War II, tactical control of the Waffen-SS was exercised by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. [2] In practice, however, Hitler used OKW as his personal military staff, translating his ideas into military orders, such as the Führer Directives , and issuing them to the three services while having little control over them.

  5. Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945) - Wikipedia

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    Shortly before World War II, Czechoslovakia ceased to exist. Its territory was divided into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the newly declared Slovak State and the short-lived Republic of Carpathian Ukraine. While much of former Czechoslovakia came under the control of Nazi Germany, Hungarian forces swiftly overran the Carpathian Ukraine.

  6. Government of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. German-occupied Europe - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Hitler cabinet - Wikipedia

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    By the final years of World War II, Bormann had emerged as the most powerful minister, not because he was head of the Party Chancellery, which was the basis of his position in the cabinet, but because of his control of access to Hitler in his role as Secretary to the Führer. [11]

  9. Areas annexed by Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    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.