History of the German Reich

German Reich Deutsches Reich
1933–1947
Left: Flag from 1918-1933 Right: Flag from 1933-1945
History
• Armistice of 11 November 1918	1918
• November Revolution	1918-1919
• Treaty of Versailles	1919
• Occupation of the Ruhr	1923-1925
• Beer Hall Putsch	1923
• Mein Kampf published	1925
• Wall Street Crash of 1929	1929
• Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor	1933
• Reichstag fire & Decree	1933
• Enabling Act of 1933	1933
• Hitler becomes a dictator, Nazi Germany is born	1933
• Night of the Long Knives	1934
• Remilitarization of the Rhineland	1936
• Anschluss	1938
• Munich Agreement	1938
• German invasion of Czechoslovakia	1939
• Second World War	1939-1945
• The Holocaust	1941-1945
• German Instrument of Surrender	1945
• Official abolition	1947

The history of the German Reich begins in 1918, following the end of the First World War and the establishment of the Weimar-based German Reich. In 1933, the German Reich was transformed into a fascist state under the rule of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) known as Nazi Germany. The de facto end of the German Reich came on 9 May 1945 when the Nazi military commander Wilhelm Keitel officially surrendered to the United Nations. On 25 February 1947, the Free State of Prussia was officially abolished by Control Council Law No. 46, marking the de jure end of the German Reich. With the end of the German Reich, Allied-occupied Germany existed with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), French Republic, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK), and the United States of America (USA) all having occupation zones in Germany.