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Nazi Germany

1933 – 1945
Sovereign stateEurope

Adolf Hitler's totalitarian Third Reich, which conquered most of continental Europe before being defeated by the Allied powers in 1945.

Defeated by the Allied powers when Field Marshal Keitel signed the unconditional German Instrument of Surrender on 8 May 1945; Germany was subsequently occupied and divided into four Allied occupation zones, eventually forming West Germany and East Germany in 1949.

Borders in 1941 · drawn from 6 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 6 border frames for Nazi Germany — the shape you scrub through changes in 1933 · 1935 · 1938 · 1939 · 1940 · 1941.

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