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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.
28 April — Hitler orders 12 submarines, in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles. 21 May — The "Defense Law" (Wehrgesetz) is issued and bans Jews from the armed forces by stipulating that only “Aryans” could serve; it also formalizes the introduction of the general compulsory military service for “Aryans” from 1 October 1935. [3]
1935: Berlin Marwitz group Several officials in the German Foreign Office attempted to instigate an army coup against Hitler; they distributed a letter asserting that "The oath of allegiance to Hitler has lost its meaning since he is ready to sacrifice Germany", and that "now was the time to act." [10] 1935: Berlin Paul Josef Stuermer
In March 1935, Hitler announced the creation of an air force, and that the Reichswehr would be increased to 550,000 men. [59] Britain agreed to Germany building a naval fleet with the signing of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement on 18 June 1935.
The Hitler cabinet was the government of Nazi Germany between 30 January 1933 and 30 April 1945 upon the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. It was contrived by the national conservative politician Franz von Papen , who reserved the office of the Vice-Chancellor for himself. [ 1 ]
In his 1943 book The Menace of the Herd, Austrian scholar Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn [35] described Hitler's ideas in Mein Kampf and elsewhere as "a veritable reductio ad absurdum of 'progressive thought'" [36] and betraying "a curious lack of original thought" that shows Hitler offered no innovative or original ideas but was merely "a virtuoso ...
Nazi Germany was established in January 1933 with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, followed by suspension of basic rights with the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act which gave Hitler's regime the power to pass and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or German president, and de facto ended with ...
Hitler, Adolf. "Liberty, Art, Nationhood : Three addresses, delivered at the Seventh National Socialist Congress, Nuremberg, 1935 (a collection of speeches at the 1935 Nazi party congress, in authorized English translation)". Berlin: M. Müller & Sohn – via Internet Archive. Hitler, Adolf.