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Bavaria is a federal state of Germany . Located in the German southeast with an area of 70 , 548 square kilometres ( 27 , 200 sq mi ), Bavaria is the largest German state . Its territory comprises roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany , and , with 12 . 9 million inhabitants , it is Germany ' s second most populous state . Munich , Bavaria ' s capital and largest city , is the third largest city in Germany . The Schutzstaffel ( SS ; also stylized as with Armanen runes literally " Protection Squadron ") was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German ___MASK46___ ( NSDAP ; ___MASK31___ ) in Nazi Germany . It began with a small guard unit known as the " Saal - Schutz " ( Hall - Protection ) made up of NSDAP volunteers to provide security for party meetings in Munich . In 1925 , Heinrich Himmler joined the unit , which had by then been reformed and given its final name . Under his direction ( 1929  45 ), it grew from a small paramilitary formation to one of the most powerful organizations in Nazi Germany . From 1929 until the regime ' s collapse in 1945 , the SS was the foremost agency of surveillance and terror within Germany and German - occupied Europe . Julius Streicher ( 12 February 1885  16 October 1946 ) was a prominent member of the ___MASK31___ ( NSDAP ) prior to World War II . He was the founder and publisher of the anti - Semitic newspaper " Der Stürmer ", which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine . His publishing firm also released three anti - Semitic books for children , including the 1938 " Der Giftpilz " ( translated into English as " The Toadstool " or " The Poisonous Mushroom "), one of the most widespread pieces of propaganda , which warned about insidious dangers Jews posed by using the metaphor of an attractive yet deadly mushroom . After the war , he was convicted of crimes against humanity and executed . The Night of the Long Knives ( German : ), also called Operation Hummingbird or , in Germany , the Röhm Putsch ( German spelling : ), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2 , 1934 , when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate Hitler ' s absolute hold on power in Germany . Many of those killed were leaders of the SA (" Sturmabteilung "), the Nazis ' own paramilitary Brownshirts organization ; the best - known victim was Ernst Röhm , the SA ' s leader and one of Hitler ' s longtime supporters and allies . Leading members of ___MASK18___ - wing Strasserist faction of the ___MASK31___ ( NSDAP ), along with its figurehead , Gregor Strasser , were also killed , as were establishment conservatives and anti - Nazis ( such as former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and Bavarian politician Gustav Ritter von Kahr , who had suppressed Adolf Hitler ' s Munich Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 ). The murders of Brownshirt leaders were also intended to improve the image of the Hitler government with a German public that was increasingly critical of thuggish Brownshirt tactics . Adolf Hitler ( 20 April 1889  30 April 1945 ) was a German politician who was the leader of the ___MASK31___ (" Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei "; NSDAP ), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 , and Führer (" Leader ") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945 . As dictator of the German Reich , he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and was central to the Holocaust . The Sturmabteilung ( SA ), literally Storm Detachment , functioned as the original paramilitary wing of the ___MASK31___ ( NSDAP ). Brandenburg ( Lower Sorbian : " Bramborska ") is one of the sixteen federated states of Germany . It lies in the northeast of the country covering an area of 29 , 478 square kilometers and has 2 . 48 million inhabitants . The capital and largest city is Potsdam . Brandenburg surrounds but does not include the national capital and city - state Berlin forming a metropolitan area . Nuremberg is a city on ___MASK27___ Pegnitz and the Rhine  Main  Danube Canal in the German state of Bavaria , in the administrative region of Middle Franconia , about north of Munich . It is the second - largest city in Bavaria ( after Munich ), and the largest in Franconia ( Franken ). The population as of February 2015 , is 517 , 498 , which makes it Germany ' s fourteenth - largest city . The urban area also includes Fürth , Erlangen and Schwabach with a total population of . The " European Metropolitan Area Nuremberg " has ca . 3 . 5 million inhabitants . A great power is a sovereign state that is recognized as having the ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale . Great powers characteristically possess ___MASK55___ and economic strength , as well as diplomatic and soft power influence , which may cause middle or small powers to consider the great powers ' opinions before taking actions of their own . International relations theorists have posited that great power status can be characterized into power capabilities , spatial aspects , and status dimensions . Potsdam is the capital and largest city of the German federal state of Brandenburg . It directly borders the German capital Berlin and is part of the Berlin / Brandenburg Metropolitan Region . It is situated on ___MASK27___ Havel , southwest of Berlin ' s city center . Herbert Windt ( 15 September 1894 , Senftenberg , Brandenburg -- 2 November 1965 , Deisenhofen , now a part of Oberhaching , Bavaria ) was a German composer who became one of the most significant film score composers of the Third Reich . He was best known for his collaborations with the director Leni Riefenstahl on films such as Triumph of the Will and Olympia . Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany as well as one of its constituent 16 states . With a population of approximately 3 . 5 million people , Berlin is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European ___MASK2___ . Located in northeastern Germany on the banks of rivers Spree and Havel , it is the centre of the Berlin - Brandenburg Metropolitan Region , which has about 6 million residents from more than 180 nations . Due to its location in the European Plain , Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate . Around one - third of the city ' s area is composed of forests , parks , gardens , rivers and lakes . Senftenberg is a town in southern Brandenburg , Germany , capital of the Oberspreewald - Lausitz district . Munich ( also in British English ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Bavaria , on the banks of River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps . Munich is the third largest city in Germany , after Berlin and Hamburg , and the 12th biggest city of the European ___MASK2___ , with a population of above 1 . 5 million . The Munich Metropolitan Region is home to 5 . 8 million people . Germany , officially the Federal ___MASK39___ of Germany , is a federal parliamentary ___MASK39___ in central - western Europe . It includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With about 82 million inhabitants , Germany is the most populous member state of the European ___MASK2___ . After the United States , it is the second most popular immigration destination in the world . Germany ' s capital and largest metropolis is Berlin . Other major cities include Hamburg , Munich , Cologne , Frankfurt , Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . The National Socialist German ___MASK46___ ( abbreviated NSDAP ), commonly referred to in English as the ___MASK31___ , was a political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and practised the ideology of Nazism . Its precursor , the German ___MASK46___ (" Deutsche Arbeiterpartei "; DAP ), existed from 1919 to 1920 . Triumph of the Will is a 1935 German propaganda film directed , produced , edited , and co - written by Leni Riefenstahl . It chronicles the 1934 ___MASK31___ Congress in Nuremberg , which was attended by more than 700 , 000 Nazi supporters . The film contains excerpts from speeches given by Nazi leaders at the Congress , including Adolf Hitler , Rudolf Hess and Julius Streicher , interspersed with footage of massed Sturmabteilung and Schutzstaffel troops and public reaction . Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer ; his name appears in the opening titles . The film ' s overriding theme is the return of Germany as a great power , with Hitler as the leader who will bring glory to the nation . Because the film was made after the 1934 Night of the Long Knives ( on 30 June ) many prominent Sturmabteilung ( SA ) members are absent  they were murdered in that Party purge , organised and orchestrated by Hitler to replace the SA with the Schutzstaffel ( SS ) as his main paramilitary force .