Greater German Reich

Großdeutsches Reich
Greater German Reich

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1938–1945

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Motto
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer
One People, one Realm, one Leader

Anthem
Das Lied der Deutschen

Capital

Berlin

Government

Republic

Head of state

- 1934-1945

Adolf Hitler

- 1945

Karl Dönitz

Head of government

- 1933-1945

Adolf Hitler

- 1945

Joseph Goebbels

- 1945

Lutz von Krosigk

Legislature

Reichstag

History

- March 12, 1938

Anschluss

- September 30, 1938

Munich Agreement

- September 1, 1939

Invasion of Poland

- June 22, 1941

Invasion of the Soviet Union

- April 30, 1945

Death of Adolf Hitler

- May 8, 1945

Surrender of Germany

Area

696,265 km²

Population

- 1941

90,030,775

Density

129.3/km²

Currency

Reichsmark

Third Reich

Austria

Czechoslovakia

Danzig

Poland

Klaipėda Region

Luxembourg

Denmark

Occupied Germany

Occupied Austria

Czechoslovakia

Poland

Alsace-Lorraine

Luxembourg

Kaliningrad

Kingdom of Denmark

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The Third Reich (English: Third Empire) (1938-1945) was a period when Germany as a national socialist state under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (₳|₩), had reached a point where it with the approval of other European states annexed territory from Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938. In September 1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland igniting a world wide and six year long conflict commonly referred to as World War II. Despite a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, Germany chose to invade its former ally in June 1941, forcing it to change sides and ally itself with the United States and the United Kingdom. Through a protracted armed conflict the United States, the United Kingdom and the USSR had by May 1945 conquered Germany militarily and defeated the Third Reich along with the Nazi leadership.