Großdeutschland
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Großdeutschland is German for "Greater Germany" or "Big Germany." It can refer to:
- Kleindeutschland and Großdeutschland, two competing ideas for unifying German-speaking lands in the 19th century; advocates of Großdeutschland wished for a single German state that included Austria as the answer to the "German question."
- Großdeutschland, the name informally adopted by Nazi Germany after annexing Austria in March 1938.
- Großdeutsches Reich, Nazi GermanyNazi GermanyNazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
's official state name from 1943 to 1945.
- Infantry Regiment GroßdeutschlandInfantry Regiment GroßdeutschlandThe Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland was an élite German Heer ceremonial and combat unit which saw action during World War II. The regiment served in the campaigns in France and the Low Countries in 1940. It then served exclusively on the Eastern Front until the end of the war...
, a German Army formation in World War II- Panzer-Grenadier-Division Großdeutschland, a mechanized infantry / armor division created from the Infantry Regiment in 1942.
- Magna Germania (Latin: Greater Germania), the Roman term for the region east of the Rhine River.