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In 1936 Germany began closer relations with
fascist Italy, a pariah state because of its invasion
of Ethiopia the year before. The two
antidemocratic states joined together to assist
General Francisco Franco in overthrowing Spain's
republican government during the Spanish Civil
War (1936-39). In November 1936, Germany
and Italy formed the Berlin-Rome Axis. That same
year, Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the AntiComintern Pact, the three signatories pledging to
defend each other against the Soviet Union and
international communism.
So what does the word “Reich”
even mean? The German word
“Reich” means kingdom or realm.
Similar to the word “Ruler”.
The Third Reich
The Third Reich’s aggressive population
encouraged “racially pure” woman to bear as many
“Aryan” children as possible. Within this framework
, “racially inferior” peoples, such as Jews and
Gypsies, would be eliminated from the region.
Nazi foreign policy aimed from the beginning
to wage a war of annihilation against the Soviet
Union, and the peacetime years of the Nazi regime
were spent preparing the German people for war.
In the context of this war, the Nazis planned and
implemented the Holocaust, the mass murder of
Jews, who were considered the primary “racial”
enemy.
 Hitler
believed that the Third Reich
would go on for thousands of years. But
really, it lasted until the Germans
surrendered to their allies in 1945.
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In 1993 Hitler became the chancellor of Germany.
August 2, 1934 President Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes the
dictator of Germany.
September 15, 1935 Nuremberg laws deprive German Jews of all
civil liberties.
March 7,1936 Rhineland was invaded by German troops.
November 9-10, 1938 Kristallnacht occurred.
May 22, 1939 Germany and Italy form an alliance: The Rome-Berlin
Axis. ("Pact of Steel")
August 23, 1939 Germany signs Pact with Soviet Union: RussoGerman Non Aggression Pact
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The final chapter in the destruction of Hitler's Third Reich began on
April 16, 1945 when Stalin unleashed the brutal power of 20
armies, 6,300 tanks and 8,500 aircraft with the objective of crushing
German resistance and capturing Berlin. By prior agreement, the
Allied armies (positioned approximately 60 miles to the west) halted
Devastation in Berlin
Soviet troops at the Brandenburg Gate their advance on the city in
order to give the Soviets a free hand. The depleted German forces
put up a stiff defense, initially repelling the attacking Russians, but
ultimately succumbing to overwhelming force. By April 24 the
Soviet army surrounded the city slowly tightening its stranglehold
on the remaining Nazi defenders. Fighting street-to-street and
house-to-house, Russian troops blasted their way towards Hitler's
chancellery in the city's center.
The websites we used were very helpful.
Such as;
 www.ddickerson.net, www.ushmm.org,
www.Jewishvirtuallibrary.org, www.adl.org,
www.cambridge.org.
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