On July 29, 1921, Hitler was elected official leader of the renamed Natiionalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazi Party). After an attempted coup to take over the Bavarian government in Munich in November of 1923, the Nazi Party was ...
By 1933, the Nazi Party was the largest elected party in the German Reichstag, which led to Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Following fresh elections won by his coalition, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which began the process of transforming the Weimar Republic...
Chancellor Adolph Hitler came on the scene with the Beer Hall Putsch, a march on Berlin, the first in a series of curious blunders. Hitler, Eric Ludendorff, Hermann Goering and 3,000-armed supporters of the Nazi Party forget to take control of the radio stations and find the road to Be...
When the Nazis were elected the largest party in the Reichstag (July, 1932), Hindenburg offered Hitler a subordinate position in the cabinet. Hitler held out for the chief post and for sweeping powers. The chancellorship went instead to Kurt vonSchleicher, who resigned on Jan. 28, 1933. Ami...
“The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again” –George Santayana Adolf Hitler is known for having the greatest impact on Europe in all of history, especially Germany. Although the majority of people look down on him for his mass murder of about 6 million Jews...
If, through the Red Cross Convention, it definitely turned out possible to prevent the killing of a defenseless wounded man or prisoner, then it ought to be equally possible, by analogous convention, and finally to stop the bombing of equally defenseless civil populations.” –German Chancellor ...
many conversations with Hitler considering art in general, but particularly theFührer’s own art. With this painting of the castle there is an official letter of authenticity from Peter Jahn regarding this watercolor in detail. Jahn recalls a conversation with the Reich’s Chancellor himself ...
It would be from the March 5, 1933 election when Hitler had become Chancellor but Marshall Hindenburg was still President: Translated, the poster reads: "The Marshall and the corporal fight alongside us for peace and equal rights" Can you get a more Leftist slogan than that? "Peace and ...
In 1911, Chamberlain was elected to the Birmingham City Council—his first political post. He married Anne Vere Cole that same year and the couple eventually had two children together, Dorothy and Francis. Chamberlain became Birmingham's lord mayor in 1915. Before long, he became a figure on ...
Today, we have overwhelming andauthentic61proof that Russia intended to attack; we are also quite clear about the date on which the attack was to take place. In view of the great danger, the proportions of which we realise perhaps only today to the fullest extent, I can only thank God ...