Greater Germanic Reich

The Greater Germanic Reich is the umbrella term for all of the Reich's holdings across Europe. Many of their colonial holdings in Europe are believed to be an integrated part of the country, although they operate under their own local governments, often called "Reichskommissariats" or simply Commissaries. The former country of Germany is its own state within the Greater Reich and is simply referred to as "The German Reich" or "The Reich". 
The Reich manages its colonial holdings, and administrates relations with its few independent allies, via the Pact of Steel. Though this pact began as the friendly union between Germany and Italy in 1939, it eventually evolved to include all of the Reich's puppets and allies within Europe. After the Atlantropa project Italy and all of its holdings officially left the Pact of Steel.

Summary

Adolf Hitler's rise to power deliberately created a personality cult around the 'Führer' and his ideological thought. This cult around Hitler pushed Germans towards the 'Endsieg' as he titled it, and helped, among other things, end the war early in 1942. With the Hitler Youth in full swing and young men everywhere prepared for war and bloodshed, Hitler soon found out that gaining power was easy, but holding onto it is a different beast entirely. The reshaping of Europe had begun, quite literally, and previous allies turned neutral or even hostile towards the Reich. 

A nation founded through war may never see peace, lest it loses the very reason for its existence.

With the war over, Germany enacted on several of its ambitious plans for Europe. The most successful of which were the rebuilding of Berlin into Germania and the Atlantropa Project, which ruined the economies of all the Mediterranean countries - leading to them abandoning Germany and forming under the Italian banner.
It was around 1950 when the German economy collapsed in on itself in a spectacular fashion. The German economy took the rest of Europe with it and led to the 1950s being a decade of chaos. Different factions within the Reich came up with different ways to solve the crisis: Speer and his reformists wanted to reform the Reich and liberalize. Himmler and the SS believed the opposite, in that National Socialism hadn't gone far enough. They created their own ideology, the Burgundian System. Goring and his militarists recognized that the root cause was that the economy was fueled by conquest, and that the Reich needed to continue conquering to fix the economy.
Tensions built up until an attempted SS coup in 1957 led to the establishment of the SS State of Burgundy where Himmler was exiled (instead of executed) to avoid a full blown civil war. 

Germania

Conceptualised during the war by Albert Speer, Germania replaced the name Berlin as the capital of the German Reich in 1946. More than a name change, Germania was part of Hitler's vision for the future of the Reich and included a number of projects ranging from expanded infrastructure to various mega-structures. Albert Speer's architectural style was incorporated into every aspect of the redesign.
Germania is organised along a a central 5 kilometre-long boulevard known as the Prachtallee (Avenue of Splendour). Other new additions including a gigantic triumphal arch, a based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, but much larger, towering at over 100 metres tall. Up the Prachtallee from the triumphal arch lies the Grand Plaza and beyond it, The Volkshalle, a megastructure dwarfing the Reichstag (parliament) beneath it, sixteen times the size of St. Peter's Basilica. Designed by Hitler himself, the Volkshalle is the largest enclosed space in the entire world. It was built with a long foundation to allow for the sinking of the building into the soft soil of former Berlin, and now houses the Nazi Party's assemblies and speeches.

Atlantropa

Beginning shortly after the war, Nazi architects were unleashed upon Gibraltar, the Suez and the Bosporus Strait. With millions of tonnes of concrete gigantic dams were built on the entrances of the Mediterranean Sea, beginning the long and arduous process of turning the body of water into arable land. The Adriatic Sea was the first to dry up, though the Italians were less than happy about their newfound farmland. The closing of the Mediterranean resulted in the absolute collapse of all southern European countries. Under a new reformist leadership, Iberia, Italy and Greece have united as the Triumvirate and have filed an official complaint against the Reich.
Their request has so far been ignored. The Reich has larger garrisons near the Atlantropa dams than the Triumvirate can muster in their entirety. In the meantime, the dams continue to pump.

"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer"

Capital: 
 Germania (formerly Berlin)
Population:
 113,795,000 (Europe)
Head of State:
Adolf Hitler

Founding Date

1933

Alternative Names

Großgermanisches Reich, The Third Reich

Demonym

German/s, Aryan/s