Search results
Adolf Hitler actually makes a run for President. The current President at that point is Paul von Hindenburg, famous for the Hindenburg line, later for the Hindenburg, the Zeppelin, the famous exploding Zeppelin disaster. He was, with Ludendorff, one of the two leaders of the German military effort during World War I.
- 12 min
- Sal Khan
Adolf Hitler - Nazi Leader, WW2, Holocaust: Once in power, Hitler established an absolute dictatorship. He secured the president’s assent for new elections. The Reichstag fire, on the night of February 27, 1933 (apparently the work of a Dutch Communist, Marinus van der Lubbe), provided an excuse for a decree overriding all guarantees of freedom and for an intensified campaign of violence.
Adolf Hitler - Nazi Leader, WW2, Germany: Discharged from the hospital amid the social chaos that followed Germany’s defeat, Hitler took up political work in Munich in May–June 1919. As an army political agent, he joined the small German Workers’ Party in Munich (September 1919). In 1920 he was put in charge of the party’s propaganda and left the army to devote himself to improving his ...
HANS MAYER: "We all felt that it was a turning point. Nobody could imagine, however, that it would be the fateful day of the entire century." NARRATOR: Using promises and threats, Hitler soon coerces the parliamentary majority to grant him autocratic power with the so-called Enabling Act. HITLER: "On January 30 in Germany, the dice have fallen.
- 3 min
The economic slump of 1929 facilitated Hitler’s rise to power. In the Reichstag elections of 1930 the Nazis became the country’s second largest party and in 1932 the largest. Hitler ran for president in 1932 and lost but entered into intrigues to gain power, and in 1933 Paul von Hindenburg invited him to be chancellor.
Adolf Hitler - Nazi Leader, WW2, Germany: Germany’s war strategy was assumed by Hitler from the first. When the successful campaign against Poland failed to produce the desired peace accord with Britain, he ordered the army to prepare for an immediate offensive in the west. Bad weather made some of his reluctant generals postpone the western offensive. This in turn led to two major changes ...
Death of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin [a] after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe. Eva Braun, his wife of one day, also ...
