Nazi Germany: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

The far-right Nazi Party won the last elections of the Weimar Republic and Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Shortly after the Death of president Paul von Hindenburg, Hitler took over also the presidential powers, becoming the so-called Führer of Germany and creating a new state, Nazi Germany (officially known as the German Reich). Dissatisfied with the outcome of the Treaty of Versailles, the other European countries initially allowed Germany to take over former territories of the German Empire or of the Austro-Hungarian Empire like Bohemia, Austria and Memelland. When Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 this caused the start of World War II in Europe. After the defeat of Germany in 1945, the country was divided in military occupation zones and ceased to exist.