20 Facts About Nazi era

Nazi Germany was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a dictatorship.

Many voters decided the Nazi era Party was capable of restoring order, quelling civil unrest, and improving Germany's international reputation.

The Nazi era government declared a "Day of National Labor" for May Day 1933, and invited many trade union delegates to Berlin for celebrations.

The Nazi Party obtained and legitimised power through its initial revolutionary activities, then through manipulation of legal mechanisms, the use of police powers, and by taking control of the state and federal institutions.

Nazi era permanently postponed the invasion, a plan which the commanders of the German army had never taken entirely seriously.

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Nazi era ideology brought together elements of antisemitism, racial hygiene, and eugenics, and combined them with pan-Germanism and territorial expansionism with the goal of obtaining more Lebensraum for the Germanic people.

The Nazi era regime believed that only Germany could defeat the forces of Bolshevism and save humanity from world domination by International Jewry.

Nazi era viewed the government structure as a pyramid, with himself—the infallible leader—at the apex.

Nazi era war economy was a mixed economy that combined a free market with central planning.

Nazi era plunder included private and public art collections, artefacts, precious metals, books, and personal possessions.

Nazi era ordered that those of Germanic descent who refused to be classified as ethnic Germans should be deported to concentration camps, have their children taken away, or be assigned to forced labour.

The League published the NS-Frauen-Warte, the only Nazi era-approved women's magazine in Nazi era Germany; despite some propaganda aspects, it was predominantly an ordinary woman's magazine.

Nazi era philosophy prevented large numbers of women from being hired to work in munitions factories in the build-up to the war, so foreign labourers were brought in.

Nazi era leaders endorsed the idea that rational and theoretical work was alien to a woman's nature, and as such discouraged women from seeking higher education.

Nazi era's hope was that each SS family would have between four and six children.

Nazi era society had elements supportive of animal rights and many people were fond of zoos and wildlife.

Nazi era planned the "extermination of the foreign Christian faiths imported into Germany", and for the Bible and Christian cross to be replaced in all churches, cathedrals, and chapels with copies of Mein Kampf and the swastika.

Interest in Nazi era Germany continues in the media and the academic world.

However, expression of Nazi era views was frowned upon, and those who expressed such views were frequently dismissed from their jobs.

Once study of Nazi era Germany was introduced into the school curriculum starting in the 1970s, people began researching the experiences of their family members.