Editing History of Bavaria (section)

===Bavaria during the Nazi era===
With the rise of the [[Nazis]] to power in 1933, the Bavarian parliament was dissolved without new elections. Instead, the seats were allocated according to the results in the national election of March 1933, giving the Nazis and its coalition partner, the [[German National People's Party|DNVP]], a narrow two-seat majority due to the fact that the seats won by the [[Communist Party of Germany|KPD]] were declared void. With this controlling power, the NSDAP was declared the only legal party and all other parties in Germany and Bavaria were dissolved. In 1934, the Bavarian parliament was, like all other state parliaments, dissolved too.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bavariathek.bayern/medien-themen/portale/geschichte-des-bayerischen-parlaments.html|title=Geschichte des Bayerischen Parlaments|website=www.bavariathek.bayern|access-date=11 September 2022|archive-date=21 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921205535/https://www.bavariathek.bayern/medien-themen/portale/geschichte-des-bayerischen-parlaments.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Shortly after, Bavaria itself was broken up during the reorganization of the ''Reich''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/nazi/innenpolitik/laendergleichschaltung/index.html |title=1933–39 Gleichschaltung der Länder (in German) |access-date=3 May 2008 |archive-date=16 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816115330/http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/nazi/innenpolitik/laendergleichschaltung/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Instead of the states, ''[[Reichsgau]]e'' were established as administrative sub-divisions. Bavaria was split into six regions, the ''Reichsgaue'' ''[[Schwaben]]'', ''München-Oberbayern'', ''Bayerische Ostmark'', ''[[Franconia|Franken]]'', ''Main-Franken'' and'' Westmark''.

[[File:NS administrative Gliederung 1944.png|180px|thumb|right|Map of Nazi Germany showing its administrative subdivisions, the ''[[Reichsgau]]e'']]
During the 12 years of Nazi rule, Bavaria was one of Hitler's favorite locations, and he spent much time in his residence at the [[Obersalzberg]]. The [[Dachau concentration camp|KZ]] (concentration camp) in [[Dachau, Bavaria|Dachau]], near Munich, was the first to be established. But Bavaria was also the scene of passive resistance to the regime, the most well known of this being the [[White Rose]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/nazi/widerstand/weisserose/ |title=Weiße Rose (in German) |access-date=3 May 2008 |archive-date=25 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130625040005/http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/nazi/widerstand/weisserose/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Nürnberg]], Bavaria's second-largest city, became the scene of massive rallies, the ''[[Reichsparteitage]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/nazi/innenpolitik/parteitag/ |title=Die Reichsparteitage (in German) |access-date=3 May 2008 |archive-date=12 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312171946/http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/nazi/innenpolitik/parteitag/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Ironically, the last of those in 1939, titled ''Reichsparteitag des Friedens'' (''Reichsparteitag of peace''), was canceled due to the outbreak of the second world war. After the war, the city was chosen for this reason to become the location of the war crimes trials, the [[Nuremberg Military Tribunals]].

Bavaria had approximately 54,000 [[Jewish]] people living in its borders at the turn of the 20th century. By 1933, still 41,000 lived in the state. By 1939, this number had shrunk to 16,000. Few of those survived the Nazi rule.<ref>[http://www.verwaltungsgeschichte.de/land_bayern.html Population of Bavaria] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828185512/http://www.verwaltungsgeschichte.de/land_bayern.html |date=28 August 2017 }} (in German)</ref>