Hitler's ability to act as a figurehead of the Nazi machine was long gone by late 1944. Many of his closest advisers and handlers had already fled to other countries, been imprisoned and/or executed by the SS for offenses both real--several assassination attempts on Hitler--and imagined, ...
The widespread murder Hitler and his Nazis were responsible for is referred to as the Holocaust and is the topic of many classes, books, movies, plays and more. The name Hitler and the term Nazi have widespread association with physical and moral ruin or worse. Hitler has often been consider...
Hitler (seated, far right) with other members of the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16, and their dog, Fuchsl. Image Credit: Bundesarchiv/CC Hitler received two medals for bravery during the Great war: the Iron Cross Second Class in 1914 and the Iron Cross First Class in 1918. It is ...
Hitler (1889-1945) was a very prominent and infamous German politician. He eventually became the leader of the Nazi Party and became the catalyst of establishing Germany as a Nazi nation. He became the chancellor of Germany in 1933, turning it into what was Nazi Germany in 1934. He led un...
In February 1920, the party officially adopted the name “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), and Hitler quickly ascended through the ranks owing to his powerful oratory skills and charismatic leadership. He became the party’s primary...
The first was the Jungsturm and Jugendbund, which would later become the Hitler Youth. The other was the Stabswache, the first incarnation of what would later become the Schutzstaffeln (SS). Inspired by Benito Mussolini's March on Rome Hitler decided that a coup d'état was the proper ...
However, he was actually born in Austria to an Austrian couple – father Alois Hitler and mother Klara Hitler Born onApril 20, 1889, Adolf had five other siblings, although four of them died before making it to adulthood. He sustained serious injuries during World War I. ...
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their first use of this tactic. AHitler-Ludendorff-Putschwas a failed attempt at revolution that occurred between the evening of 8 November and the early afternoon of 09-11-1923, when Hitler with the support of Generalquartiermeister,Erich Ludendorffand other heads of the Kampfbund unsuccessfully...
Hitler versus Hindenburg - 1932 In February 1932 Hitler decided to run against President Paul von Hindenburg. No one won a required majority on March 13, 1932, so a required second election gave Hindenburg 53 percent and Hitler 36.8 percent (one other candidate ran). Thus Hindenburg was re-el...