| rdfs:comment
| - The Greater German Reich (Großdeutsches Reich), often referred as Nazi Germany and the Third Reich, refers to Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP or the Nazi Party), which established a totalitarian dictatorship in 1933. Officially, the state was, as in the preceding Weimar Republic era, still called the Deutsches Reich until 1943, whereafter it changed to its current form.
|
| abstract
| - The Greater German Reich (Großdeutsches Reich), often referred as Nazi Germany and the Third Reich, refers to Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP or the Nazi Party), which established a totalitarian dictatorship in 1933. Officially, the state was, as in the preceding Weimar Republic era, still called the Deutsches Reich until 1943, whereafter it changed to its current form. The policies pursued during this period were based on the concept of Lebensraum, among them "Aryan" racial purity, anti-Semitism, revenge for Germany's territorial losses at the Treaty of Versailles and the perceived loss of pride because of it, and anti-communism directed at the Soviet Union; also the Nazi regime's systematic mass murder of Jews, political opponents, and other minorities like homosexuals and gypsies in a genocide known as the Holocaust. Under the Nazi regime, Germany became one of the major states in Europe by early 1939 from a military, territorial and to some degree economical standpoint. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, Nazi Germany became the first united German state since the Holy Roman Empire to include Austria within its boundaries. Following the no compliance by the Czechoslovak government regarding the cessession of the Sudetenland as demanded in the Munich Agreement signed by Hitler, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini on September 29, 1938, Hitler launched his military powers on Czechoslovakia, initiating Operation Fall Grün on October 1, 1938. On October 20, Hungary entered the war on Hitler's side, and following a bloody campaign, the Germans and the Hungarians finally conquered Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939. On May 1, 1939, the territories of Sudetenland, Bohemia and Moravia was formally annexed into the German Reich. The conquest of Czechoslovakia was the beginning of the Second World War. On September 1, 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland, which was completely overrun by October 5. In 1940, Nazi Germany had conquered Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and its long-time rival and major adversary, France. On May 10, 1942 Nazi Germany, along with the rest of the Anti-Comintern Pact, invaded the Soviet Union, which capitulated on April 15, 1944. Since 1945 — The Greater German Reich and United States of America has been the two world superpowers that dominates the global agenda of economic policy, foreign affairs, military operations, cultural exchange, scientific advancements including the pioneering of space exploration, and sports (including the Olympic Games and various world championships).
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)