Gleichschaltung
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In Nazi terminology, Gleichschaltung, meaning 'synchronization' or 'coordination', was the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler—leader of the Nazi Party in Germany—established a system of tot
1938 Nuremberg Rally postcard, from the NSDAP Central Publishing House. A Nazi Reichsadler ('Reich eagle') towers over Germany and Austria.
During the debate on the Enabling Act, Social Democrat chairman Otto Wels spoke the last free words in the Reichstag: "Freedom and life can be taken from us, but not our honor." The subsequent passage of the Act did away with parliamentary democracy.
Promulgation of the "Law to Secure the Unity of Party and State" in the Reichsgesetzblatt of 2 December 1933
Joseph Goebbels in 1942
Nazism
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National Socialism, commonly known as Nazism is the far-right, ultranationalist, racist, totalitarian ideology associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. It emerged in Germany during Hitler's ri
Gleichschaltung
…service, both at the Federal and state level. Top Federal civil servants—the State Secretaries—were largely replaced if they were not sympathetic to the Nazi program, as were the equivalent bureaucrats in the states, but Nazification took place at every level. Civil servants rushed to join the Nazi Party, fearing…
The Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (here pictured in 1938) titled himself Führer and ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Nazis alongside members of the far-right reactionary and monarchist German National People's Party (DNVP) during the brief NSDAP–DNVP alliance in the Harzburg Front from 1931 to 1932
Members of the Nazi Party can be seen seated in the Reichstag in the left foreground, the far-right seats from the speakers point of view.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, one of the fathers of German nationalism