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v. t. e. 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.
v. t. e. The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by the end of 1944 extended to all parts of Czechoslovakia. Following the Anschluss of Austria in March 1938 and the Munich Agreement in ...
e. Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in the newly established Weimar Republic in September 1919 when Hitler joined the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP; German Workers' Party). He rose to a place of prominence in the early years of the party. Being one of its most popular speakers, he was made the party leader after he threatened to otherwise ...
A timeline of the Holocaust is detailed in the events which are listed below. Also referred to as the Shoah (in Hebrew), the Holocaust was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Nazi Germany and its World War II collaborators. About 1.5 million of the victims were children.
The New Order ( German: Neuordnung) of Europe was the political and social system that Nazi Germany wanted to impose on the areas of Europe that it conquered and occupied. Planning for the Neuordnung had already begun long before the start of World War II, but Adolf Hitler proclaimed a "European New Order" publicly on 30 January 1941: "The year ...
10 January: Battle for Berlin begins; Counter-revolution with Freikorps takes crucial role. 13 January: Battle of Berlin ends. 15 January: Communist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg are murdered by Freikorps officers. March: Adolf Hitler finishes job of guarding Russian prisoners.
The Haavara Agreement ( Hebrew: הֶסְכֵּם הַעֲבָרָה, romanized : heskem haavara, lit. 'transfer agreement') was an agreement between Nazi Germany and Zionist German Jews signed on 25 August 1933. The agreement was finalized after three months of talks by the Zionist Federation of Germany, the Anglo-Palestine Bank (under the ...
Areas annexed by Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler greeted by cheering crowds in Vienna, following the annexation of Austria into the III Reich, 15 March 1938. Execution of local Polish people in the town of Kórnik, after the German invasion of Poland, 20 October 1939. Clockwise from the north: Memel, Danzig, Polish territories, General Government ...