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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.
Hitler briefly escaped the city but was arrested on 11 November 1923, [48] and put on trial for high treason, which gained him widespread public attention. [49] Defendants in the Beer Hall Putsch. The trial began in February 1924. Hitler endeavored to turn the tables and put democracy and the Weimar Republic on trial as traitors to the German ...
The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin (German: Das Buch Hitler) is the 2005 publication of a long-secret Soviet report on the life of Adolf Hitler written at the behest of Joseph Stalin. It was edited and translated into German by Matthias Uhl and Henrik Eberle.
Full text 1 September 1, 1939 Plan of Attack on Poland Invasion of Poland [1] 2 September 3, 1939 Hostilities in the West 3 September 9, 1939 Transfer of Forces from Poland to the West 4 September 25, 1939 Finishing the War in Poland 5 September 30, 1939 Partition of Poland, removing restrictions on naval warfare. 6 October 9, 1939
Hitler is a collection of two volumes by Volker Ullrich. Jefferson Chase translated both volumes into English. Jefferson Chase translated both volumes into English. The books were originally published in German by S. Fischer Verlag .
Speer described the personalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann, and, of course, Hitler himself. Speer went on to quote Hitler as telling him privately after the remilitarization of the Rhineland, "We will create a great empire. All of the Germanic peoples will ...
[6] In 1998, the Hitler expert Ian Kershaw described the book as a "masterpiece". [3] In his 2007 book Cultural Amnesia, the critic Clive James wrote, "Books about Hitler are without number, but after more than 60 years, the first one to read is still Alan Bullock's Hitler: A Study in Tyranny." [7]
The Allies seized vast masses of documents in 1945, which British historian Alan Bullock (1914–2004) used with a brilliant writing style. Bullock's biography Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952) depicts Hitler as the product of the chaos in Germany after 1918, where uncertainty and anger inflamed extremism and created the ideal setting for Hitler's demagoguery to succeed.