Soldiers at Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg

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Nazi Germany (aka the Third Reich) is the common English name for Germany between 1933 and 1945 when the country was ruled by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party. Following his appointment as chancellor in 1933, Hitler and his Nazi government soon assumed dictatorial powers and tried to control and impose Nazi values on all aspects of people’s political, social and working lives, using propaganda and persecution

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Adolf Hitler – at the time chancellor of Austria – is saluted by the crowds as he makes his way to the great parade of troops in Vienna, Austria, March 1938. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Adolf Hitler and his lover, Eva Braun, relaxing in Berchtesgaden in 1942. The Nazi leader’s private life was more ‘normal’ than some accounts have suggested (Photo by akg-images)

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A dummy Bofors gun and crew in north Africa – among the ploys used to deceive Axis intelligence about the true location of massed Allied forces before the battle of El Alamein. (Photo by Alamy)

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Jonah Hauer-King as Lali Sokolov and Anna Próchniak as Gita Furman in The Tattooist of Auschwitz

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: SS soldiers with Jewish people before their execution at Babyn Yar. “Each of these murders took place face to face. It was an intimate and barbaric process,” writes James Bulgin. (Photo by YAD VASHEM ARCHIVES)

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