The People’s Receiver 301, named after the date Hitler became Chancellor (30th January), was produced in August 1933 costing 76 Reichmarks. A cheaper version costing just 35 Reichmarks was later produced and radio ownership rose from 4 – 16 million households. Both radio sets were configured...
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...
Between that first election victory and January 1933, when Hindenburg appointed Hitler as chancellor, the Nazi leader pursued a complicated game. As Bullock recounts, he used the threat of his revolutionary movement to force the German elite - the Army and the industrialists - to give him the...
The picture of Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler done in this manner is quite exceptional. Imagine for a moment the skillful application and it is awesome indeed. To be able to hand set pieces of wood into a wooden slab and make it a realistic portrait of a human being and with upmost ...
Over the decades, in an extreme case of 'mission creep' the powers of the Commissioners has grown and now the unelected commissioners have the power to dictate policy to sovereign nations, create and impose laws without their being voted on by national parliaments and decide how the EU ...
Enabling Act,lawpassed by the GermanReichstagon March 23, 1933, that enabled ChancellorAdolf Hitlerto assumedictatorialpowers. Deputies from theNazi Party, theGerman National People’s Party, and theCentre Partyvoted in favor of the act, which “enabled” Hitler’s government to issuedecreesindepend...
sanctioned Hitler’s dictatorship. Then, in August 1934, shortly after the death of Pres.Paul von Hindenburg, the German people voted to give Hitler complete authority, combining the offices of chancellor and president to create the post of “Führerund Reichskanzler” (“Leader and Chancellor”)...