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The Secret Cabinet Council (German: Geheimer Kabinettsrat) in Nazi Germany, also sometimes referred to as the Privy Cabinet Council, was a nine-member governmental body created on 4 February 1938. The Council was established by decree of Adolf Hitler with the purpose of advising him in the conduct of foreign policy .
When President Hindenburg died in August 1934, the Law Concerning the Head of State of the German Reich merged the offices of Reich President and Chancellor and conferred the position on Hitler, who thus also became head of state and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. [5] By 1939, party membership was compulsory for all civil service ...
Neurath remains a Reich Minister (without portfolio). February 1938: Blomberg resigns as Reich Minister of War and his office is abolished. General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces, is granted cabinet rank. February 1938: Walther von Brauchitsch succeeds Fritsch as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and is granted ...
Erhard Heiden – Founding member of the Schutzstaffel (SS); its third Reichsführer from 1927 to 1929. Edmund Heines – An early Party member, he participated in the Beer Hall Putsch. Deputy Gauleiter of Gau Silesia , Police President of Breslau and an SA- Obergruppenführer , he was the Deputy to Stabschef Ernst Röhm from 1931 and was ...
All Reichstag delegates are now Nazi Party members or sympathizers. According to formal results, 92% of the voters approved the referendum proposal. 1934, 19 August: Special Plebiscite to retrospectively approve Adolf Hitler's assumption of the powers of the President, following the death of Paul von Hindenburg. 88.1% of the voters voted yes.
The Law on the Head of State of the German Reich of 1 August Ballot marked as "ja" ("yes") On 19 August 1934 voters were asked the question: [24] The office of the national president is united with that of the national chancellor. In consequence, the former powers of the national president pass to the leader and national chancellor, Adolf Hitler.
In 1942, when secret cables indicated the Nazis were killing more than 6,000 Jews a day in Poland, Morgenthau began working with the World Jewish Congress and other relief groups to help rescue ...
High Society in the Third Reich. Polity Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7456-4311-3. Dorr, Robert (2013). Fighting Hitler's Jets: The Extraordinary Story of the American Airmen Who Beat the Luftwaffe and Defeated Nazi Germany. Zenith Press. ISBN 978-0-7603-4398-2. Deutsch, Harold (1968). The Conspiracy Against Hitler in the Twilight War. University of ...