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It was officially titled Decree Concerning Demolitions in the Reich Territory (Befehl betreffend Zerstörungsmaßnahmen im Reichsgebiet) and has subsequently become known as the Nero Decree, after the Roman Emperor Nero, who, according to an apocryphal story, [1] engineered the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD.
In 1945, Adolf Hitler ordered his minister of armaments, Albert Speer, to carry out a nationwide scorched-earth policy, in what became known as the Nero Decree. Speer, who was looking to the future, actively resisted the order, just as he had earlier refused Hitler's command to destroy French industry when the Wehrmacht was being driven out of ...
Second decree on command authority within the Reich in the event of invasion 67 November 28, 1944 Exercise of command for isolated units 68 January 21, 1945 Reestablishing the command supremacy of the Fuhrer 69 January 28, 1945 Employment of the Volkssturm: 70 February 5, 1945 Evacuation of refugees from the East to Denmark 71 March 20, 1945
Adolf Hitler's directives, or Führer directives (Führerbefehle), were instructions and strategic plans issued by Adolf Hitler himself over the course of World War II.The directives covered a wide range of subjects, from detailed direction of the Armed Forces' operations during World War II, to the governance of occupied territories and their populations.
Hitler issued the Nero Decree, ordering the destruction of German infrastructure to prevent their use by Allied forces. Albert Speer and the army chiefs strongly resisted this and conspired to delay the order's implementation. [15] All remaining U-boats in the Baltic Sea were withdrawn and transferred to the west. [27]
Following the scorched earth policy detailed in Hitler's Nero Decree, he ordered cities in Baden to destroy their infrastructure to hinder the advance of the Allies. Karlsruhe, the capital, fell to the First French Army on 4 April 1945, and Wagner fled south to Konstanz.
Feb. 1945 Masthead of Richard Drauz's propaganda mouthpiece, the Heilbronner Tagblatt.The box on the right reads: Whoever Hopes, Wins!. In 1932 Wilhelm Murr, the new Party Gauleiter of Württemberg, called upon Drauz to be the Nazi Party District Leader in Heilbronn, a city with a loyal SPD/DDP social-democratic electorate and therefore a problem for the Party.
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