Germany 1918-1945

By Annie Rafter
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    Heinrich Bruning (1885–1970)

    Leader of the Catholic Centre Party and chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932. He tried unsuccessfully to deal with the impact of the Great Depression and oppose the increasing in uence of the Nazi Party in German politics.
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    HermAnn göring (1893–1946)

    A former war hero of the First World War, he joined the Nazi Party in 1922. He held various important positions in the Third Reich and from 1935 he was commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe (the German air force). In 1940 he was appointed Reich Marshal (Reichsmarschall) and was second only to Hitler in the Nazi leadership.
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    Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)

    Leader of the Nazi Party. After a long struggle for power he was appointed chancellor of Germany in January 1933, and by 1934 he had established a totalitarian state. With the death
    of President von Hindenburg in August 1934, he became the Führer (Leader) of the German nation, a position he held until his death in April 1945.
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    Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925)

    Leader of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and a supporter of German democracy.
    He became the rst president of the Weimar Republic from 1919 until his death in 1925.