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10 January: Battle for Berlin begins; Counter-revolution with Freikorps takes crucial role. 13 January: Battle of Berlin ends. 15 January: Communist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg are murdered by Freikorps officers. March: Adolf Hitler finishes job of guarding Russian prisoners.
A timeline of the Holocaust is detailed in the events which are listed below. Also referred to as the Shoah (in Hebrew), the Holocaust was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Nazi Germany and its World War II collaborators .
Nazi Germany, [ i] officially known as the German Reich[ j] and later the Greater German Reich, [ k] 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, [ l] meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim ...
The Nazi regime incarcerated some 100,000 homosexuals during the 1930s. [259] As concentration camp prisoners, homosexual men were forced to wear pink triangle badges. [260] [261] Nazi ideology still viewed German men who were gay as a part of the Aryan master race, but the Nazi regime attempted to force them into sexual and social conformity ...
Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler[ a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [ c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
1 March – Hundreds are arrested as the Nazis round up their political opponents. 5 March – German federal election, March 1933: National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes. 8 March – Nazis occupy the Bavarian State Parliament and expel deputies. 12 March – Hindenburg bans the flag of the republic and orders the Imperial and Nazi flag to ...
The Nazi Party,[b]officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party(German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei [c]or NSDAP), was a far-right[10][11][12]political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party(Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; DAP ...