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German Reich (1933–1943) Deutsches Reich Greater German Reich (1943–1945) Großdeutsches Reich | |||||||||||||
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Anthems:
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 Germany's territorial control at its greatest extent during World War II (late 1942):
 Nazi Party administrative divisions of the Greater German Reich (red line is border), 1944 | |||||||||||||
| Capital and largest city | Berlin 52°30′40″N 13°22′47″E / 52.51111°N 13.37972°E | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | German | ||||||||||||
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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[e] | ||||||||||||
• 1945 | Lutz von Krosigk[f] | ||||||||||||
| Legislature | Reichstag | ||||||||||||
| Reichsrat (dissolved 1934) | |||||||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar • World War II | ||||||||||||
| 30 January 1933 | |||||||||||||
| 23 March 1933 | |||||||||||||
| 15 September 1935 | |||||||||||||
| 12/13 March 1938[g] | |||||||||||||
| 1 September 1939 | |||||||||||||
| 30 April 1945 | |||||||||||||
| 2 May 1945 | |||||||||||||
| 8 May 1945 | |||||||||||||
• Flensburg Government arrested | 23 May 1945 | ||||||||||||
| 5 June 1945 | |||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
| 1939[h] | 633,786 km2 (244,706 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| 1940[3][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 (Reichsminister of the Interior) Wilhelm Frick 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
- ↑ De jure from 30 April until 1 May.
- ↑ De jure from 2 May until 23 May.
- ↑ De facto on 12 March with the entry of German troops; de jure on 13 March by laws passed[2]
- ↑ 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 km2 (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.
- ↑ Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum.
- 1 2 Soldaten-Atlas 1941, p. 8.
- ↑ 1939 Census.