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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 ...
An enthusiastic crowd cheers soldiers after their mobilisation in Lübeck in 1914.. The Spirit of 1914 (German: Geist von 1914; or, more frequently, Augusterlebnis, lit. ' August Experience ') was the name given to the feeling of euphoria that affected parts of the German population at the start of World War I.
The film, exclusively utilising archival footage, closely examines Hitler's rise to power, and also aims to explain why people living in Germany loved Hitler.Fest argues that Hitler was a clever, scheming and incredibly adaptable politician, who was keen to exploit any weakness he saw in the political system and in the masses who, humiliated by the outcome of WWI, were willing to support a ...
The Nazis: A Warning from History is a 1997 BBC documentary film series that examines Adolf Hitler and the Nazis' rise to power in Germany, their zenith, their decline and fall, and the consequences of their reign. It featured archive footage and interviews with eyewitnesses and was shown in six episodes.
In 1937, Hitler became aware of the Matania painting, a copy of it being owned by Dr. Otto Schwend, a member of Hitler's staff. Schwend had been a medical officer during the 1914 Battle of Ypres and in 1936 had been sent a copy of the painting by a Lieutenant Colonel Earle, whom Schwend had treated in a medical post at the Menin Crossroads; the ...
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The video is of Hitler giving a speech with a slow instrumental beat that suggests the ruthless killer didn’t want to spark a conflict during World War II, that he tried to save the lives of ...
Hitler: The Lost Tapes is a British documentary series about the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany through analysis of digitized rarely-seen photographs taken by Hitler's photographer Heinrich Hoffmann and from Eva Braun's personal photo collection including home videos shot by Braun mostly at Hitler's Berghof estate as told by historians including Guy Walters.