Nazi Germany, also known as the Third Reich, is the common name for Germany when it was a totalitarian state ruled by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP).

On 30 January 1933 Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, quickly eliminating all opposition to rule as sole leader. 

The state idolized Hitler as its Führer (“leader”), centralizing all power in his hands.

Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels made effective use of film, mass rallies, and Hitler’s hypnotizing oratory to control public opinion.

The government controlled artistic expression, promoting specific forms of art (arts which were designed to degrade and to insult the Jewish nation, to promote racism, Antisemitism and to reveal the Nordic race as the superior race) were promoted. Other types of arts were discouraged and banned by Hitler.

It was believed that the Germanic peoples—who were also referred to as the Nordic race—were the purest representation of the Aryan race, and were therefore the master race.

Education focused on racial biology, population policy, and physical fitness.