Hitler was wounded twice during the conflict: He was hit in the leg during theBattle of the Sommein 1916, and temporarily blinded by a British gas attack near Ypres in 1918. A month later, he was recuperating in a hospital at Pasewalk, northeast of Berlin, when news arrived of the armis...
Adolf Hitler - Nazi Leader, WW2, Holocaust: At the turn of the 21st century more books had been written about Hitler since his death than about Napoleon during the half-century after the latter’s demise. Time and distance from the events of World War II
When Hitler came to power legally on January 30, 1933, as the head of acoalition government, his first objective was to consolidate power and to eliminate political opposition. The assault against the Jews began on April 1 with aboycottof Jewish businesses. A week later the Nazis dismissed Je...