Born the fourth of six children to Austrian customs officer Alois Hitler--who had been married twice before--and the former Klara Polzl, Adolf Hitler grew up in a small Austrian town in the late 19th century. He was a slow learner and did poorly in school. He was frequently beaten by ...
But then Hitler shifted Germany’s strategic emphasis: rather than send his forces on to Moscow, at the end of August Hitler ordered General Heinz Guderian to take his Second Panzer Army south to assist the slow-moving Army Group South. By way of explanation, he pointed to the natural resou...
It is disconcerting that present-day young who did not know Stalin and Hitler are displaying the old naïveté. After all that has happened they still do not know that you cannot build utopia without terror, and that before long terror is all that’s left. ...
Hitler aimed to eliminate Jews from Germany and establish a New Order to counter what he saw as the injustice of the post-World War I international order dominated by Britain and France. His first six years in power resulted in rapid economic recovery from the Great Depression, the abrogation...
Hitler rebelled, and in Mein Kampf confessed to failing his first year in hopes that once his father saw “what little progress I was making at the technical school he would let me devote myself to the happiness I dreamed of.” Alois never relented, however and Hitler became even more bi...
It is struck in pure silver and has a bust portrait of Adolf Hitler with his name spelled out and the words “Unser die Zukunst,”“Ours, the Future.” On the back is the German eagle breaking away the chains of the Versailles Treaty. Around the edges it says “Im Jahr Deutscher ...
Hitler needed a place to stash his “enemies.” Two months into his chancellorship, he builtDachauoutside of Munich, the first of many concentration camps. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, began looking for other places for his family to live. Frank said many years later: ...
He financially backed the Third Reich and met directly with Hitler on behalf of Royal Dutch Shell. As a major financial contributor to Nazi Germany in pre-WW2 years, the Royal Dutch Shell Group, under Dutch leadership, arguably had some indirect responsibility for the death toll in the ...
Barack Obama is not Hitler. Neither are Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, or any others who don’t quite believe that Sarah Palin is a thoughtful, serious observer of the world condition. OTOH, what Putin has done in the Crimea is absolutely, positively, very much like what Hitler did throughout...
“This is only the beginning,” Martens said, adding that he has received death threats for selling the artwork. Martens told Secrets that the popularity of Hitler’s favorite artists sprang to life in just the last 12 months. “Last year, the market was awakened by the sale of a painting...