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2 days ago · Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler led Germany during World War II. Hitler exercised tight control over the German war-effort, spending much of his time in his command bunkers (most notably at Rastenburg in East Prussia, at Vinnitsa in Ukraine, and under the garden of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin). At crucial periods in the war he held daily ...
4 days ago · Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess in Weimar in 1930 At the top of the Nazi Party was the party chairman (" Der Führer "), who held absolute power and full command over the party. All other party offices were subordinate to his position and had to depend on his instructions.
2 days ago · Paul Joseph Goebbels ( German: [ˈpaʊ̯l ˈjoːzɛf ˈɡœbl̩s] ⓘ; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler 's closest and most ...
2 days ago · leni-riefenstahl .de. Signature. Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl ( German: [ˈleː.niː ˈʁiː.fn̩.ʃtaːl] ⓘ; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, photographer and actress known for producing Nazi propaganda. [1] [2] [3] A talented swimmer and an artist, Riefenstahl became interested in dancing during ...
5 days ago · SS, the black-uniformed elite corps and self-described “political soldiers” of the Nazi Party. Founded by Adolf Hitler in April 1925 as a small personal bodyguard, the SS grew with the success of the Nazi movement and, gathering immense police and military powers, became virtually a state within a state. History and role of the SS in Nazi ...
1 day ago · Adolf Hitler named himself chairman of the party in July 1921. On 8 November 1923, in a pact with Erich Ludendorff , a league of nationalist fighting societies called the Kampfbund , took over a meeting that Kahr and Lossow were holding at a beer hall in Munich.
4 days ago · The first steps towards the Luftwaffe's formation were undertaken just months after Adolf Hitler came to power. Hermann Göring, a World War I ace, became National Kommissar for aviation with former Luft Hansa director Erhard Milch as his deputy. In April 1933 the Reich Aviation Ministry (Reichsluftfahrtministerium or RLM) was established. The ...
