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Reichswehr soldiers swearing the Hitler oath in 1934, with hands raised in the traditional schwurhand gesture. The Hitler Oath (German: Führereid or Führer Oath)—also referred in English as the Soldier's Oath [1] —refers to the oaths of allegiance sworn by officers and soldiers of the Wehrmacht and civil servants of Nazi Germany between the years 1934 and 1945.
The most famous of the oaths to Hitler was the Hitler oath introduced to the Wehrmacht and civil service by Hitler in August 1934. [1] Those swearing the oath promised their loyalty to Hitler in person, rather than the state or its offices, and it was intended to increase loyalty to Hitler and to prevent dissidence.
Winston Churchill claimed that the Oxford Oath affected certain decisions made by Adolf Hitler during the World War II. American pacifists would take their own version of the pledge, and several anti-war strikes would take place with the pledge as the main drive.
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party , [ c ] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
A Nazi propaganda poster of Hitler used during the 1932 German presidential election campaign. Adolf Hitler's cult of personality was a prominent feature of Nazi Germany (1933–1945), [1] which began in the 1920s during the early days of the Nazi Party.
The military career of Adolf Hitler, who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until 1945, can be divided into two distinct portions of his life. Mainly, the period during World War I when Hitler served as a Gefreiter (lance corporal [A 1]) in the Bavarian Army, and the era of World War II when he served as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) through his ...
By becoming Supreme Commander of the Reichswehr, he ensured the loyalty of the military, particularly after his Minister of Defense, Generaloberst Werner von Blomberg, altered the military oath so that all members of the armed forces swore unconditional allegiance, not to the Republic or to the constitution, but to Hitler personally. The oath ...
The Hitler Oath required conscripts were to swear an oath of allegiance and binding loyalty to Adolf Hitler. [3] On 12 September 1941, Reinisch received the call-up to join the Wehrmacht . By this time he was convinced that Hitler was the personification of the Antichrist , and argued against taking the Hitler oath, even though refusing it ...