Germany
Nazi Germany (officially known as the German Reich) was the German state in 1933 when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany quickly became a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life were controlled by the government. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", alluded to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918).
On 30 January 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, the head of government, by the president of the Weimar Republic, Paul von Hindenburg, the head of state. On 23 March 1933, the Enabling Act was enacted to give Hitler's government the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or president. The Nazi Party then began to eliminate all political opposition and consolidate its power. Hindenburg died on 2 August 1934, and Hitler became dictator of Germany by merging the offices and powers of the chancellery and presidency. A national referendum held 19 August 1934 confirmed Hitler as sole Führer (leader) of Germany. All power was centralised in Hitler's person and his word became the highest law. The government was not a coordinated, co-operating body, but a collection of factions struggling for power and Hitler's favour. In the midst of the Great Depression, the Nazis restored economic stability and ended mass unemployment using heavy military spending and a mixed economy. Using deficit spending, the regime undertook a massive secret rearmament program, forming the Wehrmacht (armed forces), and constructed extensive public works projects, including the Autobahnen (motorways). The return to economic stability boosted the regime's popularity.
Racism, Nazi eugenics, and especially antisemitism, were central ideological features of the regime. The Germanic peoples were considered by the Nazis to be the master race, the purest branch of the Aryan race. Discrimination and the persecution of Jews and Romani people began in earnest after the seizure of power. The first concentration camps were established in March 1933. Jews, liberals, socialists, communists, and other political opponents and undesirables were imprisoned, exiled, or murdered. Christian churches and citizens that opposed Hitler's rule were oppressed and many leaders imprisoned. Education focused on racial biology, population policy, and fitness for military service. Career and educational opportunities for women were curtailed. Recreation and tourism were organised via the Strength Through Joy program, and the 1936 Summer Olympics showcased Germany on the international stage. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels made effective use of film, mass rallies, and Hitler's hypnotic oratory to influence public opinion. The government controlled artistic expression, promoting specific art forms and banning or discouraging others.
From the latter half of the 1930s, Nazi Germany made increasingly aggressive territorial demands, threatening war if these were not met. The Saarland voted by plebiscite to rejoin Germany in 1935, and in 1936 Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland, which had been demilitarized after World War I. Germany seized Austria in the Anschluss of 1938, and demanded and received the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in that same year. In March 1939, the Slovak state was proclaimed and became a client state of Germany, and the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was established on the remainder of the occupied Czech Lands. Shortly after, Germany pressured Lithuania into ceding the Memel Territory. Germany signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union and invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, launching World War II in Europe.
Genocide, mass murder, and large-scale forced labor became hallmarks of the regime. Starting in 1939, hundreds of thousands of German citizens with mental or physical disabilities were murdered in hospitals and asylums. Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads accompanied the German armed forces inside the occupied territories and conducted the genocide of millions of Jews and other Holocaust victims.
Germany's use of magic through its history was traditionally small groups engaged in Primal Magic or Divine Magic on a local level. Wise Women and Shamans practicing The Old Ways and Clerics working Miracles on a local scale were subject to very little oversight and there were no Government Offices concerned with Mages, their education or the study of magic outside of ecclesiastical applications. The Knights Templar was the last great Military Organization with an organized collection of Mages integrated in their ranks as Clerics and Paladins. At the end of World War 1 Imperial Germany established Das Büro für okkulte Anliegen (The Office of Occult Concerns.). This government program established a program to identify Mages, study their capabilities and found the first Mage Colleges in Europe. The office also helped draft guidelines for the organized use of mages in war. Mages were typically aerial scouts and artillery units used with the intention of bombarding enemy formations from the air and using their high mobility to withdraw and strike again elsewhere. The Imperial German studies into Arcane Magic reached new heights in the fields of Artifice and German Spellcasting Foci are amongst the best in the world.
Nazi Germany took Occult Studies to even greater heights, or possibly depths, with the approval to study Necromancy, Demonology and the darker sides of Soul Magic. The Cult of Nazi Occultism is now its own religion within The Reich. The fervor of Nazi Occultism is the source of its power, with elaborate rituals and blood sacrifices as well as the entrapment of souls for power and knowledge. Nazi Necromancers are not only skilled commanders and tacticians of their undead thralls but also lethal with spells wreathed in death. Nazi Artificers are usually specialized in Arcane Weapons and Armor using their skills to create efficient and lethal instruments of war. Hitler's various Nazi Education and Youth Programs single out and forcibly indoctrinate Mages into compulsory military service. Those found to be mentally unfit are commonly forcibly possessed by Demons and serve as Warlocks bound by magics to The Reich's service. The Reich has also taken up the study of Lycanthropy to create Werewolf shock troops to send into the thick forests and jungles and predate on enemy forces.
On 30 January 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, the head of government, by the president of the Weimar Republic, Paul von Hindenburg, the head of state. On 23 March 1933, the Enabling Act was enacted to give Hitler's government the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or president. The Nazi Party then began to eliminate all political opposition and consolidate its power. Hindenburg died on 2 August 1934, and Hitler became dictator of Germany by merging the offices and powers of the chancellery and presidency. A national referendum held 19 August 1934 confirmed Hitler as sole Führer (leader) of Germany. All power was centralised in Hitler's person and his word became the highest law. The government was not a coordinated, co-operating body, but a collection of factions struggling for power and Hitler's favour. In the midst of the Great Depression, the Nazis restored economic stability and ended mass unemployment using heavy military spending and a mixed economy. Using deficit spending, the regime undertook a massive secret rearmament program, forming the Wehrmacht (armed forces), and constructed extensive public works projects, including the Autobahnen (motorways). The return to economic stability boosted the regime's popularity.
Racism, Nazi eugenics, and especially antisemitism, were central ideological features of the regime. The Germanic peoples were considered by the Nazis to be the master race, the purest branch of the Aryan race. Discrimination and the persecution of Jews and Romani people began in earnest after the seizure of power. The first concentration camps were established in March 1933. Jews, liberals, socialists, communists, and other political opponents and undesirables were imprisoned, exiled, or murdered. Christian churches and citizens that opposed Hitler's rule were oppressed and many leaders imprisoned. Education focused on racial biology, population policy, and fitness for military service. Career and educational opportunities for women were curtailed. Recreation and tourism were organised via the Strength Through Joy program, and the 1936 Summer Olympics showcased Germany on the international stage. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels made effective use of film, mass rallies, and Hitler's hypnotic oratory to influence public opinion. The government controlled artistic expression, promoting specific art forms and banning or discouraging others.
From the latter half of the 1930s, Nazi Germany made increasingly aggressive territorial demands, threatening war if these were not met. The Saarland voted by plebiscite to rejoin Germany in 1935, and in 1936 Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland, which had been demilitarized after World War I. Germany seized Austria in the Anschluss of 1938, and demanded and received the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in that same year. In March 1939, the Slovak state was proclaimed and became a client state of Germany, and the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was established on the remainder of the occupied Czech Lands. Shortly after, Germany pressured Lithuania into ceding the Memel Territory. Germany signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union and invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, launching World War II in Europe.
Genocide, mass murder, and large-scale forced labor became hallmarks of the regime. Starting in 1939, hundreds of thousands of German citizens with mental or physical disabilities were murdered in hospitals and asylums. Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads accompanied the German armed forces inside the occupied territories and conducted the genocide of millions of Jews and other Holocaust victims.
Germany's use of magic through its history was traditionally small groups engaged in Primal Magic or Divine Magic on a local level. Wise Women and Shamans practicing The Old Ways and Clerics working Miracles on a local scale were subject to very little oversight and there were no Government Offices concerned with Mages, their education or the study of magic outside of ecclesiastical applications. The Knights Templar was the last great Military Organization with an organized collection of Mages integrated in their ranks as Clerics and Paladins. At the end of World War 1 Imperial Germany established Das Büro für okkulte Anliegen (The Office of Occult Concerns.). This government program established a program to identify Mages, study their capabilities and found the first Mage Colleges in Europe. The office also helped draft guidelines for the organized use of mages in war. Mages were typically aerial scouts and artillery units used with the intention of bombarding enemy formations from the air and using their high mobility to withdraw and strike again elsewhere. The Imperial German studies into Arcane Magic reached new heights in the fields of Artifice and German Spellcasting Foci are amongst the best in the world.
Nazi Germany took Occult Studies to even greater heights, or possibly depths, with the approval to study Necromancy, Demonology and the darker sides of Soul Magic. The Cult of Nazi Occultism is now its own religion within The Reich. The fervor of Nazi Occultism is the source of its power, with elaborate rituals and blood sacrifices as well as the entrapment of souls for power and knowledge. Nazi Necromancers are not only skilled commanders and tacticians of their undead thralls but also lethal with spells wreathed in death. Nazi Artificers are usually specialized in Arcane Weapons and Armor using their skills to create efficient and lethal instruments of war. Hitler's various Nazi Education and Youth Programs single out and forcibly indoctrinate Mages into compulsory military service. Those found to be mentally unfit are commonly forcibly possessed by Demons and serve as Warlocks bound by magics to The Reich's service. The Reich has also taken up the study of Lycanthropy to create Werewolf shock troops to send into the thick forests and jungles and predate on enemy forces.
Public Agenda
Expand German territory
Germany for Germans!
Founding Date
1933
Type
Geopolitical, Country
Capital
Alternative Names
The Third Reich, The 1000 Year Reich, Nazi Germany.
Demonym
German
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Ruling Organization
Leader Title
Head of State
Head of Government
Government System
Dictatorship
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Economic System
Command/Planned economy
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