Third Reich (1939)

Borders & accuracy

Dashed borders mark empires whose extent we can date but whose precise frontiers are contested or undocumented.

• SOURCEreconstructed from Natural Earth country boundaries
• DETAILreconstructed-clipped-country
• SNAPSHOT1939
• POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire225

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity (any of its time-slices), best-documented first.

• World War II1939–45
  World-changing · 85M dead
• The Holocaust1941–45
  World-changing · 6.0M dead
• Barbarossa Operation1941–44
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• Battle of Stalingrad1942–43
  World-changing · 2.0M dead
• Normandy Invasion (D-Day)1944
  World-changing · 500K dead
• Battle of El Alamein1942
  World-changing
• Western European Campaign1944–45
  Major conflict · 1.0M dead
• Spanish Civil War1936–39
  Major conflict · 500K dead
• Battle of Kursk1943
  Major conflict · 400K dead
• Invasion of Poland1939
  Major conflict · 200K dead
• Battle of Britain1940
  Major conflict · 100K dead
• Western Desert Campaign1940–43
  Major conflict
• Siege of Tobruk1941
  Major conflict
• Tunisian Campaign1942–43
  Major conflict
• North African Campaign1940–43
  Significant · 500K dead
• Continuation War1941–44
  Significant · 400K dead
• Italian Campaign1943–45
  Significant · 300K dead
• North Africa Campaign1940–43
  Significant · 200K dead
• Battle of the River Plate1939
  Significant · 108 dead
• Battle of Roquefixade1944
  Significant · 16 dead
• Battle of Kasserine Pass1943
  Significant
• Battle of the Mareth Line1943
  Significant
• Battle of Atlantic1939
  Regional
• Battle of Bzura1939
  Regional

+ 201 more in the atlas.