The Free State of Bavaria was one of the constituent states of the federally organized Weimar Republic. The Free State was established in November 1918 and lasted until the Nazi regime absorbed all of
Soldiers in Munich after the proclamation of the republic
King Ludwig III. He was the first of Germany's monarchs to lose his throne during the German revolution.
Kurt Eisner, the driving force behind the first phase of the German revolution in Bavaria
Johannes Hoffmann, Bavaria's minister-president after Eisner's assassination
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Nazi Germany, officially 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 i
Free State of Bavaria (Weimar Republic)
…was one of the constituent states of the federally organized Weimar Republic. The Free State was established in November 1918 and lasted until the Nazi regime absorbed all of Germany's federal states in April 1933. Following the end of World War II, the name "Free State of Bavaria" was taken up again in the…
Adolf Hitler became Germany's head of state, with the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
German soldiers march near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 14 June 1940
Death and destruction during the Battle of Stalingrad, October 1942