Reich government

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authoritarian regime central government government

The Reich government was the central authoritarian regime of Nazi Germany, dominated by Nazi Party officials who controlled the state’s political, legal, and administrative apparatus.

Aliases (15)

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	authoritarian regime → central government → government →
appliesToJurisdiction	Germany →
capital	Berlin →
characteristic	abolition of civil liberties → centralization of power → dictatorship → one-party state → police state → state terror → suppression of political opposition → totalitarianism →
controlled	German armed forces → German civil service → German police → judiciary of Nazi Germany →
controlledBy	Nazi Party →
country	Nazi Germany →
dissolvedAfter	German surrender in 1945 →
dominantParty	Nazi Party →
endTime	1945 →
headOfGovernment	Adolf Hitler →
headOfState	Adolf Hitler →
ideology	Nazism →
implementedPolicy	Gleichschaltung → Nuremberg Laws → antisemitic legislation → expansionism → militarization of society → persecution of Jews → persecution of political opponents → racial laws → state propaganda →
language	German →
legalBasis	Enabling Act of 1933 →
opposedBy	Allied powers in World War II →
partOf	Third Reich →
politicalPosition	far-right →
replaced	Weimar Republic government →
responsibleFor	Holocaust → crimes against humanity → war crimes in World War II →
significantEvent	Enabling Act of 1933 →
startTime	1933 →
usedLegalInstrument	Reichstag Fire Decree →
usedSecurityApparatus	Gestapo → SD → SS →

Referenced by (49)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Foreign Office of Nazi Germany ("Government of Nazi Germany") → Ministry of the Interior of the Weimar Republic → Organisation Todt ("Nazi German government") → Reich Air Ministry ("Government of Nazi Germany") → Reich Coal Commissioner → Reich Labour Ministry → Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories ("Government of Nazi Germany") → Reich Ministry of Defence ("Government of Nazi Germany") → Reich Ministry of Economics → Reich Ministry of Finance → Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture → Reich Ministry of Justice → Reich Office for Economic Planning → Reich Office for Spatial Planning → Reich Price Commissioner → Reich Protector ("German Reich government") → Reich Statistical Office →	subordinateTo
Eduard Jobst Siedler ("German Reich government") → Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger ("Government of Nazi Germany") → Hans Heinrich Lammers ("Government of Nazi Germany") → Irmfried Eberl ("Nazi German authorities") → Otto Dietrich ("Reich government of Nazi Germany") → Wilhelm Frick ("Government of Nazi Germany") →	employer
Ministry of the Interior of Nazi Germany ("government of Nazi Germany") → Reich Minister without Portfolio → Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production ("Government of Nazi Germany") → Reich Ministry of Defence → Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture ("government of Nazi Germany") → Reich Office for Spatial Planning ("government of Nazi Germany") →	partOf
Cabinet Room ("German Reich government") → Nazi Party officials →	governingBody
Gleichschaltung ("Nazi state apparatus") → Law Concerning the Reconstruction of the Reich →	implementedBy
AA → Reichsgesetzblatt ("Reichsregierung") →	relatedTo
Cabinet of Adolf Hitler ("Reich government under Adolf Hitler") →	alsoKnownAs
Reich Chancellery ("Nazi government of Germany") →	builtFor
Siegfriedstellung ("Nazi German government") →	constructedBy
Stroop Report ("Nazi German authorities") →	createdFor
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ("Reich government of Adolf Hitler") →	enactedBy
Cabinet of Adolf Hitler →	executiveBody
Enabling Act of 1933 →	grantedPowerTo
Rentenmark ("Reichsregierung") →	introducedBy
Hans Heinrich Lammers →	memberOf
Gerhard Klopfer ("Third Reich administration") →	participantIn
German Federal Cabinet ("Reich Cabinet of Germany") →	predecessor
Enabling Act of 1933 ("Hitler cabinet") →	proposedBy
Allied Control Council ("Nazi government of Germany") →	replaced
Government of Prussia ("central government of Nazi Germany") →	replacedBy