Adolf Hitler - Military Leader, Dictator

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was the founder and leader of the Nazi Party and the most influential voice in the organization, implementation and execution of the Holocaust, the systematic extermination and ethnic cleansing of six million European Jews and millions of other non-aryans. Hitler was the Head of State, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and guiding spirit, or fuhrer, of Germany's Third Reich from 1933 to 1945. - Hitler's Early Years - World War I - Hitler Starts to Lead - Rise of the Nazi Party - Hitler As German Fuhrer - World War II - Allied Victory & Hitler's Death Early Years Born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889, Hitler was the son of a fifty-two-year-old Austrian customs official, Alois Schickelgruber Hitler, and his third wife, a young peasant girl, Klara Poelzl, both from the backwoods of lower Austria. World War I Hitler Becomes a Leader Rise of the Nazi Party Hitler As Fuhrer World War II Allied Victory and Hitler's Death

Aggression as a Basic Nazi Idea: Mein Kampf [Page 644] Hitler's Mein Kampf, which became the Nazi statement of faith, gave to the conspirators adequate foreknowledge of the unlawful aims of the Nazi leadership. It was not only Hitler's political testament; by adoption it became theirs. Mein Kampf may be described as the blueprint of the Nazi aggression. Its whole tenor and content demonstrate that the Nazi pursuit of aggressive designs was no mere accident arising out of an immediate political situation in Europe and the world. A great German philosopher once said that ideas have hands and feet. A copy of Mein Kampf was officially presented by the Nazis to all newly married couples in Germany. "To the newly married couple, Friedrich Rosebrock and Else Geborene Zum Beck, with best wishes for a happy and blessed marriage. This copy of Mein Kampf, which was the 1945 edition, contains the information that the number of copies- published to date amount to 6,250,000.] [Page 646] entry into the League of Nations.

History - World Wars: The Rise of Adolf Hitler History of Germany: Primary Documents - EuroDocs Flag of Germany EuroDocs > History of Germany: Primary Documents Chronological History of Germany Germany in Late Antiquity Medieval Germany Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern Germany Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Germany Germany: World War I and Weimar Republic Germany: National Socialism and World War II Germany Divided and Reunified Other Sources for German History German Sources by Topic German Constitutions and Legal Documents German Local and Regional History Sources Historic German Newspapers and Journals Online Other Collections Relevant to German History EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Librarian,Harold B.

Hitler's Failed Coup - The Beer Hall Putsch Ten years before Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, he tried to take power by force during the Beer Hall Putsch. On the night of November 8, 1923, Hitler and some of his Nazi confederates stormed into a Munich beer hall and attempted to force the triumvirate, the three men that governed Bavaria, to join him in a national revolution. The men of the triumvirate initially agreed since they were being held at gunpoint, but then denounced the coup as soon as they were allowed to leave. Hitler was arrested three days later and, after a short trial, was sentenced to five years in prison, where he wrote his infamous book, Mein Kampf. A Little Background In the fall of 1922, the Germans asked the Allies for a moratorium on the reparations payments that they were required to pay according to the Versailles Treaty (from World War I). The French occupation of German land united the German people to act. In August 1923, Gustav Stresemann became Chancellor of Germany. The Plan The Putsch The Downfall

"Weimar Culture and the Rise of National Socialism: The <i>Kampfbund fü" by Alan E. Steinweis Abstract Between 1928 and 1932, the National Socialist movement transformed itself from an insurgent fringe party into Germany's most potent political force. The most important factor in this dramatic turnabout in political fortunes was the rapid deterioration of the German economy beginning in 1929. It does not, however, logically follow that the German people simply fell into the lap of the party and its charismatic leader. To the contrary, the party aggressively employed sophisticated propagandistic and organizational strategies for attracting and mobilizing diverse segments of German society.

Germany Germany 1919-39: simple overview specifically aimed at the old AQA GCSE, plus detailed notes on specific topics. Basic notes SchoolHistory Interactive Diagrams - GREAT! History Learning Site - excellent HistoryGCSE.org - online revision notes, including exemplar essays. majzlik.com - AS/A level notes by the History Co-ordinator of Guildford School. Dr Dennis's model answers - very clear and useful exemplar answers, aimed at OCR - BBC video Make Germany Pay Parts 1 and 2 - Scott Allsop's podcast on Weimar Germany - BBC debate-podcast on Hitler's Rise toPower - Scott Allsop's podcast on Hitler's Rise to Power - Giles Hill's excellent podcasts on Germany 1918-1939 - Scott Allsop's podcast on Nazi Control of Germany - BBC debate-podcast on life in Nazi Germany - Scott Allsop's podcast on life in Nazi Germany - quirky view - Weimar Germany - quirky view - Nazi Germany YouTube Mr Portman's great video Wikipedia- good overview encyclopaedia site The old BBCi notes on the Rise of Hitler Prof. Weimar Republic:

Program of the National Socialist German Workers' Party Program of the National Socialist German Workers' Party The program of the German Workers' Party is an epochal program. The leaders reject the idea of setting up new goals after those included in the program have been achieved merely in order to make possible the further existence of the Party by artificially inducing discontent among the masses. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. We wage war against the corrupt parliamentary administration whereby men are appointed to posts by favor of the party without regard to character and fitness. 7. 8. 9. 10. Therefore we demand: 11. Breaking the Bondage of Interest 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. (a) All editors and their assistants on newspapers published in the German language shall be German citizens. (b) Non-German newspapers shall only be published with the express permission of the State. Newspapers transgressing against the common welfare shall be suppressed. 24. 25.

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Gleichschaltung Skip to comments. Gleichschaltung history on the web ^ | July 1, 2015 | knarf Posted on Wed 01 Jul 2015 07:51:36 PM CEST by knarf As a totalitarian regime the Third Reich developed its own language, a perversion of the German language. The control of hearts and minds, to which totalitarian political systems aspire, necessitates such a perversion of the normal use of language. (Excerpt) Read more at history-ontheweb.co.uk ... TOPICS: Education; History; Miscellaneous; ReferenceKEYWORDS: control; fascism Navigation: use the links below to view more comments. first 1-20, 21-31 next last Concepts series. As a totalitarian regime the Third Reich developed its own language, a perversion of the German language. Gleichschaltung is an example from the early days of the Nazi dictatorship of this use of language to manipulate and confuse. Two examples from different areas of society will illustrate the process of Gleichschaltung in practice. 1 posted on Wed 01 Jul 2015 07:51:36 PM CEST by knarf See?

Germany Eric Solsten, ed. Germany: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1995. Acknowledgments Preface Geography North German Lowland Central German Uplands Southern Germany Alpine Foreland and the Alps Drainage Climate The Environment Society Population Historical Background Fertility Age-Gender Distribution Mortality Population Distribution and Urbanization Immigration Ethnic Minorities Women in Society Marriage and Family Housing Religion Postwar Christianity Roman Catholicism Protestantism Free Churches Orthodox Churches Judaism Islam Social Structure and Social Mobility The Elite The Self-Employed Salaried Employees Civil Servants Workers The Poor Social Mobility The Search for a New National Identity Bibliography Cities in Germany: Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Flensburg, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Heidelberg, Kiel, Leipzig, Lubeck, Munich, Nuremberg Custom Search Country Studies Index

Germans against Hitler. Who resisted the Third Reich and why did they do it? Germans against Hitler. Who resisted the Third Reich and why did they do it? by Dr Martyn Housden. new perspective. Summary: Accepting a narrow definition of resistance as 'active participation in an organised attempt to undermine the Third Reich' three types of resisters are identified: those who became disillusioned with the Third Reich, those who acted out of necessity and those who resisted because of political, religious or moral principles. Different Definitions of Resistance 'RESISTANCE' HAS BEEN DEFINED in different ways. ... This is a very wide definition indeed. Obviously a variety of courses of action were open to a German who was opposed to the Third Reich and who wanted to do something about it: but how many of them really amounted to 'resistance'? Kershaw's criteria are very exacting indeed. Resistance Through Disillusionment The decision for a German to become a true resister often was neither easy nor straightforward. Gradually, however, he was compelled to re-think. Notes

Hitler's SS: Private Army of the Third Reich This article appears in the March 31, 2006 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. Hitler's SS: Private Army Of the Third Reich by Steve Douglas The blackshirted SS (Defense Detachment) of Heinrich Himmler, which fulfilled certain "defense" and intelligence/security functions in and for Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party, numbered only around 10,000 members until 1932, the year before Hitler's installation as Chancellor. Their numbers paled in comparison to the 3 million brownshirted members of Ernst Röhm's SA (Stormtroops), the Nazi street thugs who had already intimidated, brutalized, hospitalized, or murdered so many Germans who opposed the Nazis. Yet, Hitler chose the core cadre of the SS to murder hundreds of his presumed opponents inside and outside the SA—including the Chancellor who preceded him, Gen. Himmler aggressively recruited "sponsorships" of SS members from the aristocracy and upper middle class, bestowing "honorary membership" upon those who responded.