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5 days ago · Behind the scenes, however, Hitler worked to sideline the aging statesman and prepare for his succession. On August 2, 1934, Hindenburg died at the age of 86. Within hours, Hitler declared himself Führer and Reich Chancellor, merging the offices of president and chancellor and completing his total usurpation of power.
1 day ago · In 1990 Robert Gellately completed a major study which investigated the role of the secret police in Nazi Germany. His book, The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy 1933-1945 (Oxford University Press; Oxford, 1995) demonstrated conclusively that the much feared and allegedly omnipresent Gestapo in fact relied on widespread public support to function effectively.
2 days ago · The Munich Agreement [a] was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, Great Britain, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy. The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived. [1]
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3 days ago · Allusions to "Hitler's prophecy" by Nazi leaders and in Nazi propaganda were common after 30 January 1941, when Hitler mentioned it again in a speech. The prophecy took on new meaning with the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and the German declaration of war against the United States that December, both of which facilitated an ...
4 days ago · Thanks to a friend, I can show you this wonderful selection. In the impressive parish church St. Quirinus in Tegernsee, in the south of Germany, on 24 June 2023 Dr. Nicolaus Berlin and Countess Camilla von Drechsel said YES. They were married by provost Markus Pottbäcker and Father Eberhard von Gemmingen in a one and a half hour ceremony.
4 days ago · t. e. Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
4 days ago · The stud in Neustadt was established by order of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia in 1788. The carriage was also used in 1993 when Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain visited Potsdam and Sanssouci. Then finally the newly wed couple left the church. The kiss according to media reports lasted 1,8 seconds.
