For twelve years, from 1933 to 1945, Germany was under Nazi rule. The country that gave the world great writers and composers, scientists and inventors plunged into the darkness of Nazi terror. Everyone whose biographies are given in the reference book - and there are more than 800 of them - constituted the elite of the Nazi regime. Here are the leaders of the NSDAP, and ministers and their deputies, and major military leaders, and commandants of concentration camps, and diplomats who ensured global recognition of the regime, and industrialists who raised military economy, and aces of air and submarine warfare, and film actors, and designers, and many others. All of them - from the ambassador to the overseer of Auschwitz - created and defended this regime and reigned supreme over Germany throughout the twelve years of the existence of the “thousand-year Reich.”