Government of Nazi Germany
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The government of Nazi Germany was a totalitarian dictatorship governed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party according to the Führerprinzip. Nazi Germany was established in January 1933 with the appoint
From left to right: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels and Rudolf Hess, 1933
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