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  2. Military career of Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia

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    The military career of Adolf Hitler, who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until 1945, can be divided into two distinct portions of his life. Mainly, the period during World War I when Hitler served as a Gefreiter (lance corporal [A 1]) in the Bavarian Army, and the era of World War II when he served as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) through his ...

  3. Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. World War I - Wikipedia

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    Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."

  5. History of Germany during World War I - Wikipedia

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    Marquis, H. G. "Words as Weapons: Propaganda in Britain and Germany during the First World War." Journal of Contemporary History (1978) 12: 467–98. McKibbin, David. War and Revolution in Leipzig, 1914–1918: Socialist Politics and Urban Evolution in a German City (University Press of America, 1998).

  6. German invasion of Belgium (1914) - Wikipedia

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    A horse entered Leuven during the night and caused a stampede, which panicked German sentries, after which General von Luttwitz, the Military Governor of Brussels, ordered reprisals. Burning and shooting by German troops took place for five days, during which 248 residents were killed; the surviving population of 10,000 people were expelled and ...

  7. Occupation of the Rhineland - Wikipedia

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    French troops entering Essen during the occupation of the Ruhr. On 11 January 1923, French and Belgian troops occupied the industrial Ruhr district east of the Rhine after Germany fell behind in the reparations payments required of it under the Treaty of Versailles. Military law was imposed, local governments were placed under French control ...

  8. German entry into World War I - Wikipedia

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    History Teacher 20.1 (1986): 63–86, in JSTOR emphasis on roles of Germany and Austria. Mombauer, Annika. "Guilt or Responsibility? The Hundred-Year Debate on the Origins of World War I." Central European History 48.4 (2015): 541–64. Mombauer, Annika. The origins of the First World War: controversies and consensus. (2002) Mommsen, Wolfgang J.

  9. Adolf Hitler's rise to power - Wikipedia

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    For over four years (August 1914 – November 1918), Germany was a major participant in World War I. [a] After fighting on the Western Front ended in November 1918, [b] Hitler was discharged on 19 November from the Pasewalk hospital [c] and returned to Munich, which at the time was in a state of socialist upheaval. [9]