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Just five weeks later on 22 February, Hitler was recorded saying to his closest associates: "We shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jew." Allied knowledge of the atrocities
On February 22, Hitler used his powers as chancellor to enroll 50,000 Nazi SA men (also known as stormtroopers) as auxiliary police. Two days later, Hermann Göring, Minister of the Interior and one...
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Hitler's entry and rise
After the war, Hitler remained in the army, which was mainly engaged in suppressing socialist uprisings breaking out across Germany, including Munich (Bavarian Soviet Republic), where Hitler returned in 1919. He took part in "national thinking" courses organized by the Education and Propaganda Department of the Bavarian ReichswehrGroup, Headquarters 4 under Captain Mayr. A key purpose of this group was to create a scapegoat for the outbreak of the war and Germany's defeat. The scapegoats were...
The Hitler Putsch
Encouraged by this early support, Hitler decided to use Ludendorff as a front in an attempt to seize power later known as the Hitler Putsch (and sometimes as Beerhall Putsch or Munich Putsch). The Nazi Party had copied the Italian Fascists in appearance and also had adopted some programmatical points and in the turbulent year 1923, Hitler wanted to emulate Mussolini's "March on Rome" by staging his own "Campaign in Berlin." Hitler and Ludendorff obtained the clandestine support of Gustav von...
The rebuilding of the party
At the time of Hitler's release, the political situation in Germany had calmed down, and the economy had improved, which hampered Hitler's opportunities for agitation. Instead, he began a long effort to rebuild the dwindling party. Though the Hitler Putsch had given Hitler some national prominence, his party's mainstay was still Munich. To spread the party to the north, Hitler also assimilated independent groups, such as the Nuremberg-based Wistrich, led by Julius Streicher, who now became Ga...
The Brüning administration
The political turning point for Hitler came when the Great Depression hit Germany in 1930. The Weimar Republic had never been firmly rooted and was openly opposed by right-wing conservatives (including monarchists), Communists, and the Nazis. As the parties loyal to the republic found themselves unable to agree on counter-measures, their Grand Coalition broke up and was replaced by a minority cabinet. The new Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, lacking a majority in parliament, had to implement his...
The cabinets of Papen and Schleicher
President Hindenburg, influenced by the Camarilla, became increasingly estranged from Brüning and pushed his chancellor to move the government in a decidedly authoritarian and right-wing direction. This culminated in May 1932 with the resignation of the Brüning cabinet. Hindenburg appointed the nobleman Franz von Papen as chancellor, heading a "cabinet of barons." Papen was bent on authoritarian rule and since in the Reichstagonly the conservative German National People's Party (DNVP) support...
Hitler's appointment as Chancellor
Meanwhile Papen, resentful because of his dismissal, tried to get his revenge on Schleicher by working toward the general's downfall, through forming an intrigue with the Camarilla and Alfred Hugenberg, media mogul and chairman of the German National People's Party. Also involved were Hjalmar Schacht, Fritz Thyssen, and other leading German businessmen. They financially supported the Nazi Party, which had been brought to the brink of bankruptcy by the cost of heavy campaigning. The businessme...
What is especially frightening about Hitler's rise to power is that his Nazi party was initially empowered using the democratic process and that Hitler's autocratic powers were confirmed by Parliament with only one party opposed. In the process, Hitler made extensive use of propagandato curry favor with the people and demoralize opponents. Having s...
Opening moves
On March 12, 1938, Hitler pressured his native Austria into unification with Germany (the Anschluss) and made a triumphal entry into Vienna. Next, he intensified a crisis over the German-speaking Sudetenland districts of Czechoslovakia. This led to the Munich Agreement of September 1938, which authorized the annexation and immediate military occupation of these districts by Germany. As a result of the summit, Hitler was Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1938. British prime minister Neville C...
Path to defeat
On June 22, 1941, Hitler gave the signal for three million German troops to attack the Soviet Union, breaking the non-aggression pact he had concluded with Stalin less than two years earlier. This invasion, code-named Operation Barbarossa, seized huge amounts of territory, including the Baltic states, Belarus, and Ukraine, along with the encirclement and destruction of many Soviet forces. German forces, however, were stopped short of Moscowin December 1941 by the Russian winter and fierce Sov...
Defeat and death
By the end of 1944, the Red Army had driven the last German troops from Soviet territory and began charging into Central Europe. The western Allies were also rapidly advancing into Germany. The Germans had lost the war from a military perspective, but Hitler allowed no negotiation with the Allied forces, and as a consequence the German military forces continued to fight. Hitler's stubbornness and defiance of military realities also allowed the continued mass killing of Jews and others to cont...
Adolf Hitler was brought up as a Roman Catholic by his parents. According to historian Bradley F. Smith, Hitler's father, though nominally a Catholic, was a freethinker, while his mother was a devoted Catholic. Michael Rissmann states that young Hitler began to object to the Church and Catholicismas an adolescent, protesting against being confirmed...
At the time of Hitler's death, most of Germany's infrastructure and major cities were in ruins and he had left explicit orders to complete the destruction. Millions of Germans were dead with millions more wounded or homeless. In his will, he dismissed other Nazi leaders and appointed Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz as Reichspräsident (President of German...
Propaganda films
During Hitler's reign, he appeared in and was involved to varying degrees with a series of propagandafilms by the pioneering filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. They were: 1. Der Sieg des Glaubens (The Victory of Faith,1933) 2. Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will,1934) 3. Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht (Day of Freedom: Our Armed Forces,1935) 4. Olympia(1938) Out of the four films, Hitler was the star of the first three and was prominently featured in the fourth (Olympia); he served as a co-p...
Documentaries
1. The World at War (1974) is a famous Thames Television series that contains much information about Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, including an interview with his secretary, Traudl Junge. 2. Adolf Hitler's Last Days, from the BBC series Secrets of World War IItells the story about Hitler's last days. 3. Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2002) is an exclusive 90-minute interview with Traudl Junge, Hitler's final trusted secretary. Made by Austrian-Jewishdirector André Heller shortly before Jung...
Baynes, Norman H. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922–August 1939. Vol. 1. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1942. ISBN 0598758933Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. William S. Konecky Associates, 1999. ISBN 1568520360Chamberlain, Houston S. Foundation of the Nineteenth Century.New York, NY: John Lane & Company, 1910.Fest, Joachim C. The Face Of The Third Reich. Da Capo Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0306809156All links retrieved January 29, 2021. 1. Portrayals of Hitler Project– How Hitler has been viewed over the years. 2. Hitler's Mein Kampf(full text) 3. Photographs of Adolf Hitler
Speech of February 24, 1941, 926-936. Speech of March 16, 1941, 937-942. Hitler's Order of The Day, April 6, 1941, 942-947. Speech of May 4, 1941, 947-963. Proclamation of June 22, 1941, 974-987. This is by no means a complete list of all the speeches Hitler ever gave in his lifetime. Those would number in the thousands.
He gave his first speech as Chancellor on February 10, 1933, in the Berlin Sportplast. This is Hitler’s Regierungserklaerung [State of the Union address] to the German people. Speaking in uniform, he explains the ideological reasons for the Nazis ’ rise to power and their main political aims.
Aug 2, 2016 · Human & Civil Rights. On February 1, 1933, two days after he was appointed chancellor, Hitler spoke over the radio to the German people about his vision for the future of the country: Over fourteen years have passed since that unhappy day when the German people, blinded by promises made by those at home and abroad, forgot the highest values of ...
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Aug 2, 2016 · What was the purpose of Hitler’s speech to the Reichstag in January 1939? Why did Hitler call himself a “prophet”? What did he predict? How had Germany’s position in Europe and the world in January 1939 changed since Hitler had been appointed chancellor in 1933? How does Hitler’s speech excerpted here reflect this change?
