Formally inaugurated in Potsdam in 1933, the Third Reich was regarded by Hitler as the greatest in aline ofmighty Germanı empires. His mystical belief thot this empire would last aı thousand years proved unfounded, but not before a world war which resulted in the loss of at least 60 million lives. This atlas charts the rise and fall of Hitler' s Nazi state, from the first mass meeting of the NSDAP in Munich inı 1920, through the relentless territorial aggression andı anti-Jewish atrocities of World War Il, to the execution ofı war criminals in Nuremburg in 1946. It offers penetrating insights into the seemingly inexorable rise of Nationalı Socialism and examines the nature of Hitler's power structures both within his party and within Germany as a whole. ( )