German Reich (1933–1943) Deutsches Reich Greater German Reich (1943–1945) Großdeutsches Reich | |||||||||||||||
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| 1933–1945 | |||||||||||||||
| Anthems: Das Lied der Deutschen ("The Song of the Germans") Horst-Wessel-Lied [a] ("The Horst Wessel Song") | |||||||||||||||
Germany's territorial control at its greatest extent during World War II (late 1942):
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| Capital and largest city | Berlin 52°31′N 13°23′E / 52.517°N 13.383°E | ||||||||||||||
| Common languages | German | ||||||||||||||
| Religion |
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| Demonym | German | ||||||||||||||
| Government | Unitary Nazi one-party fascist state under a totalitarian dictatorship | ||||||||||||||
| Head of State | |||||||||||||||
• 1933–1934 | Paul von Hindenburg[c] | ||||||||||||||
• 1934–1945 | Adolf Hitler[d] | ||||||||||||||
• 1945 | Karl Dönitz[c] | ||||||||||||||
| Chancellor | |||||||||||||||
• 1933–1945 | Adolf Hitler | ||||||||||||||
• 1945 | Joseph Goebbels | ||||||||||||||
• 1945 | L. G. S. von Krosigk | ||||||||||||||
| Legislature | Reichstag | ||||||||||||||
| Reichsrat (dissolved 1934) | |||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar • World War II | ||||||||||||||
| 30 January 1933 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 March 1933 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 March 1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 September 1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 April 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 May 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 May 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||||
| 1939[e] | 633,786 km2 (244,706 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| 1940[2][b] | 823,505 km2 (317,957 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||
| 79,375,281 | |||||||||||||||
| 109,518,183 | |||||||||||||||
| Currency | Reichsmark (ℛℳ) | ||||||||||||||
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- ↑ On 12 July 1933, Reichsinnenminister Wilhelm Frick, the Interior Minister, ordered that the Horst-Wessel-Lied be played right after the standing national anthem Das Lied der Deutschen, better known as Deutschland Über Alles.Tümmler 2010, p. 63.
- 1 2 3 Including the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the General Government
- 1 2 as President
- ↑ as Führer und Reichskanzler
- ↑ In 1939, before Germany acquired control of the last two regions which had been in its control before the Versailles Treaty—Alsace-Lorraine, Danzig and the Polish Corridor—its area was 633,786 square kilometres (244,706 sq mi). See Statistisches Jahrbuch 2006.
<ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).- ↑ Ericksen & Heschel 1999, p. 10.
- 1 2 Soldaten-Atlas 1941, p. 8.
- ↑ 1939 Census.