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GERMANY (2)
GERMANY (2)
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a country in
north
-
central
Europe which came under the political
control
of the
Nazis
(people belonging to the National
Socialist
German
Workers'
Party
) in 1933, with Adolf
Hitler
as
dictator
from 1933 to 1945. In
alliance
with
Italy
and, later, Japan,
Nazi
-controlled
Germany
entered into a large-
scale
war
with many other nations of the
world
, which came to be called
World War II
. The
Nazi party
was officially abolished in 1945 at the
conclusion
of the
war
.
Nazi
comes from the
German
word
Nazi
(onalsozialist).
See also
Hitler
and
war
in this glossary.
—
3rd South African
unpublished Appr GLS (19.3.92)