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Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital 1939‒1945 (2011) Newman, Kitty. Macmillan, Khrushchev and the Berlin Crisis, 1958–1960 (Routledge, 2007). Paret, Peter (1989). The Berlin Secession: Modernism and Its Enemies in Imperial Germany. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-06774-5. Prowe, Diethelm.
Hitler conceived of rebuilding Berlin to be the capital of the new world he would be instrumental in creating, and provided the name for it, 'Germania'. [1] According to records of Hitler's "table talk" of 8 June 1942, Hitler's purpose in the renaming was to give a Greater Germanic world empire of the New Order a clear central point:
11 July: Electoral Brandenburg Society of Sciences founded. Population: 28,500. 1701 – 18 January: Berlin becomes capital of the Kingdom of Prussia. [citation needed] 1702 – Friedrichs-Waisenhaus Rummelsburg orphanage and infirmary established. 1703 8 July: Parochialkirche opened. [4] Wooden Friedrichs Bridge built. 1704 – Vossische ...
The National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party, was founded in 1920. [11] The Nazi party platform included destruction of the Weimar Republic, rejection of the Treaty of Versailles, radical antisemitism , and anti- Bolshevism . [ 12 ]
It was only during the 1871 unification of Germany that the newly unified German Reich was first assigned an official capital. Since Berlin was the capital of Prussia, the leading state of the new Reich, it became the capital of Germany as well. Berlin had been the capital of Prussia and its predecessor, Brandenburg (an der Havel), since 1518 ...
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.
On 27 February 1933, there was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, precisely four weeks after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Despite the firefighters' efforts, most of the building was gutted. [10]
Hitler issued a law merging the powers of the presidency into the office of the chancellor. 2 August: Hindenburg died from lung cancer. 1935: 16 March: German re-armament: Hitler announced that Germany would rebuild its military, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. 1936: 7 March