12 Years, 3 Months, 9 Days - The Annual Chronicle of the Third Reich

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor. Once the power over Germany was in their hands, the Nazis did not let go of it: until its demise on May 8, 1945. The Third Reich lasted 12 years, three months and nine days. It began with high hopes and unprecedented jubilation: and ended after a world war with more than 50 million dead, the destruction of Germany and the genocide of European Jews.