Nazi Germany

Historical eventSeptember 151935

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws (pictured), which deprived Jews of their citizenship.

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When
Sunday, September 15 193591 years ago
Category
Historical eventA dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.
Era
20th century · 1930s
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Dates: From 1935.

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Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and the German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945,

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September 15 1935 — 91 years ago, on a Sunday.

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