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Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
Nazi propaganda foretold a terrible fate for the German people if they failed to hold off the enemy. Extravagant hopes were placed in secret weapons ( guided missiles , jet planes , and snorkel -equipped U-boats) and in a split between the Western powers and the Soviet Union .
Even within Germany itself, violent and nonviolent resistance to the Nazi regime manifested; perhaps the best-known nonviolent anti-Nazi group was the student-led White Rose movement. The German measures for stamping out opposition were often brutal and included the shooting of hostages.
Germany - Nazi, Holocaust, WW2: When Hitler finally became chancellor, on January 30, 1933, it was not on the crest of a wave of popular support but as the result of backroom political intrigue by Schleicher, Papen, and the president’s son, Oskar von Hindenburg.
In 1919, he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP), the precursor of the Nazi Party, and in 1921 was appointed leader of the Nazi Party. In 1923, he attempted to seize governmental power in a failed coup in Munich and was sentenced to five years in prison, serving just over a year of his sentence.
The Battle of Stalingrad (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad in what is now southern Russia.
On the night between November 9 and 10, 1938, the Nazi authorities unleashed a pogrom across the Third Reich, encompassing Nazi Germany, Austria, and parts of former Czechoslovakia in response to the murder of the Nazi German diplomat in Paris, Ernst vom Rath, on November 7.
