Nazi germany, [i] officially the german reich[j] and later the greater german reich, [k] was the german state between 1933 and 1945, when adolf hitler and the nazi party controlled the. Nazi germany was the totalitarian regime that ran germany, countries and regions annexed by germany, and countries occupied by germany during world war ii, between january 30,. Adolf hitler and his nazi party swept to power in 1933.

He rebuilt germany's war machine,. The nazi state, often referred to as the third reich, emerged after the destruction of the democratic weimar republic by the national socialist german workers' party under the.