The Greater German Reich (Großdeutsches Reich), often referred as Nazi Germany and the Third Reich, refers to Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP or the Nazi Party), which established a totalitarian dictatorship in 1933. Officially, the state was, as in the preceding Weimar Republic era, still called the Deutsches Reich until 1943, whereafter it changed to its current form.