Nazi Germany

**Nazi Germany** refers to the country of Germany under the one-party dictatorship of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or the Nazi Party, from 1933 until 1988. Nazi Germany (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 to 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1988) was a totalitarian state where the government controlled all aspects of life. With Adolf Hitler serving as its first Fuhrer beginning in 1933, Nazi Germany quickly instated fascist policies such as the imprisonment of opposition, the exile of Jews, socialists, communists, homosexuals, and racial minorities, and the implementation of eugenics, ethnic cleansing, racial biology, and other Aryan-supremacist policies.

Nazi Germany would be one of the primary Axis Powers involved in World War II, launching the invasion of the bordering Socialist Federal Republic of Danube and the Soviet Union, due to the intent of uniting the German peoples alongside the hatred of Marxism-Leninism. While invading and occupying large portions of Central and Eastern Europe, Nazi Germany enacted the Holocaust, resulting in the widespread genocide of Jews, ethnic Poles, ethnic Slavs, and many other marginalized minorities. Despite support from some of the greatest colonial powers at the time, including Britain, France, Italy, and Japan, the Allied powers began to reoccupy lost territories conquered by Nazi Germany, creating a major turning point in the war. The war then resulted in a stalemate on all sides; however, due to the surprising death of Adolf Hitler due to declining physical health, a power struggle from different factions within Nazi Germany followed, resulting in a quasi-civil war. The Allied Powers took advantage, invading and occupying Prussia. In response, Nazi leadership strongly condemned this act of Judaeo-Bolsheviks invading German soil, deploying atomic bombings of five cities (Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Brno, and Warsaw), resulting in the deaths of more than 300 thousand civilians. Despite Britain advising against the usage of nuclear weapons, Germany intended to deploy more, but planes carrying these nukes were shot down by Allied encirclement strategies. Britain eventually negotiated with Germany, and no further atomic bombs were deployed, as the fighting came to a stalemate and eventual ceasefire, with Germany not having regained its lost territories.

With the end of World War II, Nazi Germany, although still larger than before, lost much of its territories due to the occupation of Prussia, and the creation of the Prussian Democratic Republic the next year. The genocide of non-Aryan peoples continued for nearly another decade, with most extermination camps shut down by 1955. The Nazi party would continue its implementation of racist policies and eugenics, finding new powerful allies with fascist takeovers of Britain and France. Public opinion of the Nazis remained high before and during the war, due to mass media control and a rebounding economy, but economic struggles persisted after the war, leading to more reforms. The Nazi Party kept its totalitarian rule until the 80's, massacring and arresting forms of opposition and protestors. In the early 80s, many began to turn on the ruling Nazi Party, demanding more democracy and a multi-party system, as well as better economic reforms due to high rates of inflation and mass unemployment. The party fell after a coup and mass protests in 1988, with the support of corporations and many other members of the party. Multi-party liberal democracy was reinstated in Germany for the first time since the Weimar Republic of 1920-1933, resulting in major socialist victories despite years of persecution and arrests of socialists. Germany and Prussia would eventually reunite in 2001, creating the newfound German Socialist Confederation.