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Nazi Germany

Germany from 1933 to 1945 while under control of the Nazi Party
Organization historical_period Q7318

Facts

38 properties
Instance of
historical period, historical country, sovereign state, dictatorship[5][6][7]
Inception
March 15, 1933[57]
Country
German Reich[3]
Part of
German Reich[54]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 52.511°, 13.380°
Facet of
German Reich
Short name
Deutschland, Niemcy, Германия, Нямеччына, Немачка, Allemagne, Germany, Allemagne nazie
Anthem
Deutschlandlied, Horst-Wessel-Lied[28][29]
Area
+583418.84, +696265
Basic form of government
semi-presidential system, republic, one-party dictatorship, dictatorship, presidential system, autocracy, totalitarianism, semi-presidential system[30][31][32][33][34][35][36]
Capital
Berlin[11]
Coat of arms
Reichsadler of the Nazi Germany, Reichsadler[52][53]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Hamburg, Free State of Prussia, Republic of Baden, Bavaria, People's State of Hesse, Free State of Mecklenburg, Free People's State of Württemberg, Free State of Anhalt, Free State of Oldenburg, Wikidata item, Bremen, Lübeck, Berlin[37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49]
Continent
Europe[4]
Currency
Reichsmark[13]
Demonym
Allemand, Allemands, Allemande, Allemandes
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
May 23, 1945[58]
Flag
flag of Nazi Germany[50]
Head of state
Paul von Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler, Karl Dönitz[8][9][10]
Language used
German
Legislative body
Reichstag[51]
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
Germany, Austria, Poland
Member of
Axis Powers[2]
Motto text
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer
Show all 38 facts +14
Native label
Deutsches Reich
Official language
German[12]
Official name
Deutsches Reich
Official religion
secular state
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, WikiProject Nazi Germany
Participant in
Munich agreement, Fourth Partition of Poland
Permanent duplicated item
Wikidata item
Political ideology
Nazism
Population
+79730000, +109518183
Replaced by
American occupation zone in Germany, British occupation zone in Germany, French occupation zone in Germany, Soviet occupation zone of Germany
Replaces
Weimar Republic, Federal State of Austria, Free City of Danzig, Republic of Lithuania
Said to be the same as
Third Reich, Greater German Reich[55][56]
Shares border with
Second Polish Republic, First Republic of Austria, Federal State of Austria, Soviet Union, Lithuania, Memelland, First Czechoslovak Republic, Second Czechoslovak Republic, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Denmark, Slovak Republic, General Government, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Kingdom of Italy, Switzerland, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Kingdom of Hungary, Independent State of Croatia[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]
Significant person
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Paul von Hindenburg, Heinrich Himmler
🏷️ Also known as
en Thousand-Year Reich en Hitler's Third Reich en Greater German Reich en German Reich en Nazi-Germany en Nazi Germany en Third Reich ar ألمانيا النازية cs Německá říše cs Velkoněmecká říše cs nacistické Německo cs Třetí říše da Nazi-Tyskland de 1000-jähriges Reich de Großdeutsches Reich de Drittes Reich de NS-Reich de NS-Regime de NS-Deutschland de Grossdeutsches Reich
🔖 Identifiers · 40
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85054594
GND ID
4013021-6
OpenAlex ID
C121578661
BBC News topic ID
c2w75w2exe1t
BBC Things ID
92eba8f1-9743-449a-b23c-36e14dfe79e9
Bgm.tv character ID
15433
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11934736c
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Third-Reich
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
troisieme-reich
FactGrid item ID
Drupia
Fandom article ID
germany:Nazi_Germany
Freebase ID
/m/059z0
Show all 40 identifiers +28
GSSO ID
001493
Google News topics ID
CAAqJQgKIh9DQkFTRVFvSUwyMHZNRFU1ZWpBU0JXVnVMVWRDS0FBUAE
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
tercer-reich
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0054737
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
tretii-reikh-dd630a
Harper's tag
1933-1945
IMDb keyword
nazi-germany
KBpedia ID
NaziGermany
Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID
2750
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
121578661
Museum-digital place ID
102219
Namuwiki ID
나치 독일
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
geo/9f0d29bd-0f65-4ed3-84db-d17d0f0c4886
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007529117405171
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810533128905606
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX463921
Numista ruling authority ID
3581
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3989643
Quora topic ID
Nazi-Germany
Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
contextosculturales/1195861
TV Tropes ID
UsefulNotes/NaziGermany
Topic's main Wikimedia portal
Portal:Nazi Germany
Topic's main category
Category:Nazi Germany
Universal Decimal Classification
(430)"1933/1945", 94(430).086
Vikidia article ID
fr:Troisième_Reich
Wellcome Collection concept ID
t9drkq6c
WikiKids ID
Nazi-Duitsland
Yale LUX ID
activity/bd6077a1-43f7-4319-beeb-b20912a322a0

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🔗 Connections
Things located in country 1398
Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Hamburg, Bavaria, Strasbourg, Cologne, Stuttgart +1390 more
← Allegiance 1118
Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring, Adolf Eichmann, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Karl Dönitz, Rudolf Hess, Reinhard Heydrich +1110 more
← Country of registry 1016
Bismarck, Tirpitz, Admiral Graf Spee, Scharnhorst, German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, German cruiser Prinz Eugen, U-47, Blücher +1008 more
Citizens 613
Adolf Hitler, Sigmund Freud, Marlene Dietrich, Anne Frank, David Hilbert, Erwin Schrödinger, Martin Heidegger, Werner Heisenberg +605 more
← Country of origin 329
Volkswagen Beetle, MP40, Panzer IV, Panther, Tiger II, Panzer I, V-1, Panzer II +321 more
Participated in 118
World War II, Spanish Civil War, Battle of Stalingrad, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Operation Barbarossa, Eastern Front, Munich agreement, 1939 Invasion of Poland +110 more
← Applies to jurisdiction 40
Gestapo, Chancellor of Germany, Anti-Comintern Pact, Nuremberg Laws, Luftwaffe, SD-Hauptamt, Einsatzgruppen, Reichsmark +32 more
← Main subject 37
Template:Country data Nazi Germany, Fury, Mephisto, The Book Thief, The Damned, Der Fuehrer's Face, The Royal Game, Hannah Arendt +29 more
← Category combines topics 30
Category:20th century in Germany, Category:Germany in World War II, Category:1945 in Germany, Category:People from Nazi Germany, Category:1938 in Germany, Category:1933 in Germany, Category:1936 in Germany, Category:1944 in Germany +22 more
← Shares border with 24
Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Soviet Union +16 more
Shares border with 22
Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Soviet Union, Kingdom of Italy +14 more
← Time period 16
Nazi book burnings, Last will and testament of Adolf Hitler, women in Nazi Germany, Christmas in Nazi Germany, gottgläubig, Walter Georg Kühne, Comparative ranks of Nazi Germany, Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany +8 more
← Country for sport 15
Gottfried von Cramm, Ernst Baier, Otto Nerz, Maxi Herber, Willibald Schmaus, Josef Stroh, Matthias Kaburek, Franz Wagner +7 more
Contained subdivisions 13
Berlin, Vienna, Memelland, Reichsgau Wartheland, History of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Ostmark, Free State of Oldenburg, Free State of Anhalt +5 more
Contains the administrative territorial entity 12
Berlin, Hamburg, Bavaria, Lübeck, Bremen, Free State of Prussia, Free State of Oldenburg, Republic of Baden +4 more
Located in this place 12
The Holocaust, Kristallnacht, Night of the Long Knives, Final Solution, Porajmos, women in Nazi Germany, World Chess Championship 1934, Ukrainian National Army +4 more
← Parent organization or unit 12
Wehrmacht, Reichskommissariat Ostland, Walloon Legion, 25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Hunyadi (1st Hungarian), 24th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS, 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, 31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division, Volga Tatar Legion +4 more
← Operator 10
Panzer III, Walther PP, Mannlicher M1895, Karl-Gerät, Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp, 7.63×25mm Mauser, 7.65×21mm Parabellum, 4.2 cm Pak 41 +2 more
Basic form of government 7
republic, dictatorship, totalitarianism, presidential system, autocracy, semi-presidential system, semi-presidential system
Owned entities 7
Führerbunker, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Ministry of Aviation, Werwolf, U-129, Ehrentempel, New Chancellery
← Used by 7
conspiracy theory, eugenics, extermination camp, divide and rule, Arbeit macht frei, Wunderwaffe, Cultural Bolshevism
← Signatory 6
German Instrument of Surrender, German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation, Reichskonkordat, German–Estonian Non-Aggression Pact, German–Latvian Non-Aggression Pact, Treaties of Rome (1941)
← Affiliation 5
Jürgen Stroop, Heinz Lammerding, Hermann Prieß, Max Simon, Carlingue
← Narrative location 5
Education for Death, Where Hands Touch, Company of Heroes, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, Berlin
Instance of 4
dictatorship, sovereign state, historical period, historical country
Replaced by 4
Soviet occupation zone of Germany, American occupation zone in Germany, British occupation zone in Germany, French occupation zone in Germany
Replaces 4
Weimar Republic, Free City of Danzig, Federal State of Austria, Republic of Lithuania
← Conferred by 4
German Cross, Order of the German Eagle, German National Prize for Art and Science, Clasp to the Iron Cross
← Replaced by 4
Prussia, Weimar Republic, Free City of Danzig, Republic of Lithuania
← Replaces 4
Soviet occupation zone of Germany, American occupation zone in Germany, British occupation zone in Germany, French occupation zone in Germany
← Target 4
Operation Vegetarian, French declaration of war on Germany, British declaration of war on Germany, United States declaration of war on Germany
Belongs to 3
fascism, Axis Powers, German Reich
Head of state 3
Adolf Hitler, Paul von Hindenburg, Karl Dönitz
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity 3
Germany, Poland, Austria
Participant in 3
World War II, Eastern Front, Battle of Aachen
People born here 3
Shimon Mizrachi, Pavel Kozlovsky, Michael Faber
← Authority 3
death march, SS-Hauptamt, Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Ärztebund
← Cause of destruction 3
destruction of Warsaw, Synagogue in Frýdek, Great Synagogue in Brno
← Commissioned by 3
Volkswagen Beetle, La Coupole, Blockhaus d'Éperlecques
← Facet of 3
economics of fascism, Catholic Church and Nazi Germany, Cultural Bolshevism
← Has cause 3
Eastern Front, Vienna offensive, Stalag X-B
← Has effect 3
World War II, Vienna offensive, Nazi
← Work location 3
Eva Braun, Carl von Ossietzky, Gerhard Bast
Anthem 2
Deutschlandlied, Horst-Wessel-Lied
Coat of arms 2
Reichsadler, Reichsadler of the Nazi Germany
Employees / affiliates 2
Walter Rauff, Hubertus Strughold
On focus list of Wikimedia project 2
Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Residents 2
Herbert A. Wagner, Max Keith
← Agent of action 2
Case Blue, Operation Bernhard
← Ancestral home 2
Germans of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Germans
← Field of work 2
Beate Klarsfeld, Karl Dietrich Bracher
← Headquarters location 2
Free State of Oldenburg, Free State of Anhalt
← Location of creation 2
Julleuchter, Mercedes-Benz L3000
← Member of 2
Red Skull, Mister Sinister
← Operating area 2
German Rugby Federation, Advanced School of the NSDAP
Capital 1
Berlin
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Nazi Germany
Continent 1
Europe
Country 1
German Reich
Currency 1
Reichsmark
Facet of 1
German Reich
FactGrid item ID 1
Drupia
Flag 1
flag of Nazi Germany
Has these parts 1
Reichskulturkammer
Language used 1
German
Legislative body 1
Reichstag
Member of 1
Axis Powers
Named after 1
German tank problem
Official language 1
German
Official religion 1
secular state
People who died here 1
Serhij Herbel
Political ideology 1
Nazism
Said to be the same as 1
Third Reich
Topic's main Wikimedia portal 1
Portal:Nazi Germany
Topic's main category 1
Category:Nazi Germany
← Capital of 1
Berlin
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Nazi Germany
← Characteristic of 1
Lebensraum
← Creator 1
Stalag X-B
← Defendant 1
Porajmos
← Enemy 1
Gwardia Ludowa
← Historical region 1
Bagrationovsk
← Immediate cause of 1
Operation Harvest Festival
← In opposition to 1
resistance during World War II
← Interested in 1
Gerald Burton Winrod
← Killed by 1
Lepa Radić
← Manufacturer 1
U-2324
← Model item 1
ultranationalism
← Organizer 1
Operation Reinhard
← SNARC ID 1
Ankaraobato
← Said to be the same as 1
Third Reich
← Set in period 1
Patterns of Force
← Significant event 1
Anne Frank
← Statement supported by 1
Polish Border Strip
← Wikimedia portal's main topic 1
Portal:Nazi Germany
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Summary

Nazi Germany is a historical period[1].

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Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Nazi Germany include German tank problem[59], a mathematical problem[60].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include German tank problem[59], a mathematical problem[60].

Related Entities

Adolf Eichmann Adolf Galland Adolf Hitler Albert Kesselring Albrecht Penck Alexander Löhr Alfred Flatow Alfred Jodl Alfred Naujocks Alfred Rosenberg Alice Schwarzer Alois Brunner Alphonse Mucha American occupation zone in Germany Amon Göth Andrey Vlasov Angela Hitler Anne Frank Antimilitärischer Apparat Aribert Heim Arthur Seyss-Inquart Austria Baldur von Schirach Beate Klarsfeld Belgium Bert Sakmann Buna Werke Bydgoszcz Carl Ludwig Siegel Carl von Ossietzky

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