Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia

Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that April 20 is the anniversary of the birth of WWI German Corporal veteran; German Chancellor; then de-facto dictator of Germany, later Austria and Sudetenland [Czech] as he gained for himself the infamous rank, Führer, in 1933.
He seems to have competed with Josef Stalin to see which regime could murder the most.
He no doubt is destined for eternal punishment in Hell.

Images:
1. Hitler at Wolf's Lair
2. Adolf Hitler (seated, first from right) with other men of the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16, 1914-1918.
3. Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, Berlin, Germany, Sep 1937
4. Adolf Hitler, accompanied by Heinz Gudarian (left) and Wilhelm Keitel, touring the Rügenwalde testing grounds in Pomerania (now Darowo, Poland) to see the giant railway gun “Dora,” 19 Mar 1943.

Hitler in Colour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0oKXFT_9DY

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"Adolf Hitler
Surname Hitler
Given Name Adolf
Born 20 Apr 1889
Died 30 Apr 1945
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
It probably would not be much of an exaggeration to say that Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, ranked high among the most evil men in the entire history of mankind. His personal ambition, fueled by extreme racial hatred and a deranged vision, led directly to the European War and the series of atrocities later known as the Holocaust.
Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary to Alois Hitler, a customs official, and Klara Pölzl, Alois' distant cousin. The traditional spelling of his family name was Hiedler, as in Johann Georg Hiedler, the step-father of Alois. The spelling change was likely a mistake by the staff of the local priest responsible for birth registries. At age 16, Hitler dropped out of school after the death of Alois to pursue a career in art. The Academy of the Arts in Vienna, however, did not believe that he was as talented as he thought he was, and rejected his application twice. He continued to paint for merchants and tourists and lived the life of a poor artist. In 1907, his mother passed away from breast cancer; she was treated unsuccessfully by Dr. Edward Bloch, who was Jewish by faith. Hitler's relationship with his mother was a loving one. He had rebelled against his father ever since he was about the age of 10 or so, describing him as a strict disciplinarian, even though evidence suggested that he was no more strict than the norm at that time. Many sources also suggest that Hitler's interest in art stemmed many arguments with his father, who wanted him to become a civil servant like he was before his death. Hitler channeled all his affection toward his mother, and when she died of the painful cancer, he was filled with grief. He remembered deep in his heart that it was a Jewish doctor who failed to cure his mother. By 1909, he found himself in a homeless shelter and then a house for poor workers. He begged and shoveled snow for a living.
He moved to Munich in 1913, which was declared by Austria-Hungary as a draft-dodging. After being arrested and returned to Vienna, he was found unfit for military service. At the onset of WW1 in Aug 1914, however, Hitler enlisted in the 16th Bavarian reserve infantry regiment of the German army and became a messenger. He received the Iron Cross Second Class in Dec 1915 and First Class in Aug 1918 for bravery in action. As a soldier, "[H]e was aloof from comrades, zealous in his duty, and very lonely." Although born an Austrian, he became a German patriot, and was deeply disturbed at the eventual defeat of Germany in WW1. In his mind, he was convinced that disharmony within Germany caused the disgraceful defeat. One group he blamed for the disharmony was the Communists; witnessing a 1918 munitions workers strike, which he insisted was backed by Communists, he exclaimed "[w]hat was the army fighting for if the homeland itself no longer wanted victory?" He blamed Jews as well; it was around this time when his extreme anti-Semitism took shape in his mind, fueled by his earlier studies of the writings of Lanz von Liebenfels, Karl Lueger, and Georg Ritter von Schönerer.
By the early 1920s, after being discharged from the Germany military, Hitler became active in politics. His rowdy yet emotion-stirring speeches slowly gathered a group of conservatives around him. His own poor and lonely background made him a great orator to his audiences; "[h]e understands his subjects because they are so like himself", said W. H. D. Vernon. In 1921, he traveled to Berlin to meet with leaders of other nationalist groups in attempt to unify their efforts. During his visit in Berlin, disagreements broke out in the party. On 29 Jul 1921, he successfully maneuvered himself into the position of party leadership, gaining himself the infamous rank, Führer, as a result. He renamed his party to the National Socialist German Workers Party, or, the Nazi Party.
In Nov 1923, Hitler and the Nazi Party planned on a propaganda march through Munich to gather support for a coup against the local German government. He was arrested as a result. In prison, he dictated the book Mein Kampf to his deputy Rudolf Hess. The book expressed his twisted vision for Germany, blaming the Jews for all of Germany problems, and starting to develop a neo-nationalist ideal ruled by the superior Aryan race. When he was released from prison in 1925, he regained party leadership and spent the coming years establishing support for the Nazi Party. In 1930, an economic depression hit Germany, and Hitler seized the opportunity to sell his party ideals to the public. The German people, unemployed and hungry, placed their trust in the Nazi party to return Germany to the position of a world power again. As a result, the Sep 1930 elections placed 107 Nazi members in the Reichstag. With the Nazi Party suddenly becoming the second most powerful political party in Germany, the dangerous militarization of the German government began. In 1932, the Nazi Party became the ruling party in the Reichstag, paving way for Hitler to become the Chancellor in Jan 1933. In the next months, Hitler engaged in a series of schemes to rid his potential political rivals with the aid of the para-military organizations of SA and the SS, and later the Gestapo as well. On 1 Aug 1934, Hitler declared himself the absolute ruler of the German Third Reich in an act that was completely illegal according to the German constitution, which stated that "if a president should die while in office, his title and powers should pass, not to the chancellor, but to the president of the supreme court" until election could be held. So, under the cover of popularist propaganda and construction projects such as the autobahns, the felony of the German constitution Hitler began the systematic persecution of the German Jews. In 1935, Hitler publicly promoted the Nuremberg Laws, depriving German Jews of their citizenship; by 1938, the Nazi Party openly urged hooligans to destroy Jewish-owned businesses and synagogues.
Among one of the first items Hitler engaged upon was Germany's participation in the League of Nations; specifically, his dislike of German participation. Beginning in Mar 1933, the League of Nations took up the question of firebombing, noting that it should be banned because the resulting fires was as uncontrollable as poison gas that the League of Nations had already outlawed. As the new resolution was about to be passed, Hitler announced Germany's exit from the League of Nations, throwing global politics upside down. The topic of firebombing was never passed into law, and even if it was, it would mean nothing without Germany's backing. Hitler walked away with pride that his Germany held so much power, but little did he know, his decision "ensured the death of hundreds of thousands of his own countrymen" as British and American aircraft would, ten years later, firebomb his cities.
As absolute ruler, Hitler also began to employ the foreign policy he had in mind to avenge the shame of the Versailles Treaty. He aligned himself with several ambitious rulers such as Benito Mussolini of Italy and Francisco Franco of Spain. His vision was to acquire Lebensraum, living space, for the German people in Eastern Europe. It began with the annexation of Austria then Czechoslovakia. During this time, he displayed utmost mastery in manipulating leaders of the western Allies; "his intuitive grasp of how far he could go with Allied leaders was uncanny", commented William Manchester. It was not until after the invasion of Poland in Sep 1939 that Britain and France finally declared war on Germany.
While Hitler played an active role in international diplomacy and war planning, he exhibited a general lack of interest in German domestic politics. After the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, he rarely held cabinet meetings; in fact, he rarely visited the Chancellory in Berlin. When facing issues he did not care of resolve, he either forced different sides of an issue to resolve the issue before presenting it to him, or simply agreed with whoever presented the issue to rid himself of the work. Intentional or not, the latter created a system of government that could be described as institutional Darwinism. It was so labyrinthine and redundant that Nazi Germany resembled more like a collection of Medieval fiefdoms rather than the highly organized machine that it presented itself as.
In 1938, German fighter ace Adolf Galland met Adolf Hitler for the first time. Galland's first impression of Hitler was that Hitler was "short, gray faced and not very strong, a weak handshake, and he spoke with a crisp language. On 8 or 9 May 1940, his bodyguard Rochus Misch met him for the first time; Hitler left this impression on Misch:
I had seen neither a monster nor superman.... The private individual Hitler was a normal, simple man, the simplest man I have ever knew. Only outside did he slip into his Führer role; only then did everything have to go according to protocol.
After WW2 broke out in Europe, Hitler's racial persecutions intensified. Between 1939 and 1945, an estimated minimum of 11 million people were systematically brought to concentration camps and murdered. No one could ever be sure of how many innocent Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and political enemies of the Nazi Party were killed in these concentration camps; some estimates ran as high as 25 million. The Holocaust was a part of the Final Solution carried out by the Nazi Party to establish a pure German nation. "[W]e shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jews", as Hitler said casually and heartlessly. To convince his followers, he justified this by claiming he was doing the work of God. "I believe today I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator", he claimed in Mein Kampf, "by warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work." While he openly expressed himself as a leader of a crusade of sorts, his actual attitude toward religion was rather unfavorable. Although originally baptized Catholic, he actually did not abide by any doctrines of Christianity. He picked and chose elements of Christianity as he saw fit to aid him in his persecution of Jews and to establish his political position.
Anti-Semitism was not an uncommon thing in Europe at this time, for that the Christian majority had always looked down upon those of Jewish faith. It was especially prevalent in rural Catholic communities. However, by this time Hitler viewed the Jews as more than a mere group of annoyance as commonly felt by the ignorant; he looked at the Jews, along with Slavs and other European minorities, as sub-human creatures. This twisted belief was later merged with his own suffering from syphilis, rumored to have acquired during a rendezvous with a prostitute in Vienna who might possibly had been Jewish, which led him to strangely associate the Jewish faith with diseases. Out of the feeling that he was not able to save her mother from breast cancer, he felt that he must act as Germany's savior and rid the nation of its suffering.
To achieve this, Hitler obsessed with maintaining pure blood in German people. Like most of Hitler's artwork, this was not an original concept by him; rather, it was plagiarized by earlier writers such as Houston Stewart Chamberlain. He eventually became so obsessive with this concept that he had ordered to set up facilities where the supposedly superior Aryans were sent to mate. While he believed that it would maintain the pure blood of a superior race, ironically this practice also treated the blond-haired and blue-eyed Aryans like animals on breeding grounds.
Hitler's complete disregard for humanity, then, made his complete lack of integrity so much expected. The Sep 1939 invasion of Poland was committed while a peace treaty between Germany and Poland was still in place. Then in Jun 1941, Hitler tore up the non-aggression pact that his government had sign with Russia only a few years before, and launched Operation Barbarossa into Russia. Throughout his career as the leader of Germany, he again and again turned on those who helped him to the top, purging them out of positions of power to prevent them from challenging his position.
Many believed Hitler was one-quarter Jewish or Czechoslovakian Slav. Many studies also found suppressed homosexual tendencies in Hitler. The strongest evidence came from his close working relationship with the early Nazi Party founders such as Ernst Röhm, who were homosexuals. Röhm, in fact, was a man who Hitler addressed with the affectionate German pronoun du, a practice he did not continue with anyone else after Röhm's death in 1934. His interest in the opposite sex also was rather intriguing. Although he had many female companions, he was never married. His earlier relationships showed signs of a perverse sexual nature, especially illustrated with his relationship with his niece, Geli, who was either killed (purposefully or otherwise) by Hitler in the heat of passion, or was sexually abused so harshly that she committed suicide. These theories, though none ever proven completely, painted a picture of Hitler that, if true, seemed to explain the Holocaust as a twisted extension of his own unbalanced psyche.
Another interesting observation on Hitler, which perhaps could also be described as rather unbalanced, was his hatred for Berlin as a city. He disliked Berlin the first time he stepped on its grounds. In 1928, he denounced the city as "a melting pot of everything that is evil - prostitutes, drinking houses, cinemas, Marxism, Jews, strippers, dancing, and all the vile offshoots of so-called 'modern-art'." This was not difficult to understand. Where Paris used to be known as the sin city, Berlin had now taken over the title. Prostitution was rampant, some even featured young teenage girls; gay bars opened up one after another, visited by financial executives and ordinary citizens alike; with the influx of Hollywood films, gangsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano became role models. It was not hard to see why Hitler, who believed in the purity of the German people and culture, hated Berlin. Throughout his entire reign, he never stayed in Berlin longer than what he had to, preferring to remain in his remote headquarters such as Wolfsschanze (the Wolf's Lair) in Rastenburg, East Prussia or aboard special armored trains such as Amerika. Perhaps the previously mentioned Marxist-backed munitions workers strike Hitler witnessed in 1918 had much to do with it, too: Berlin had, despite the Nazi regime, a strong liberal mentality that could never be taken away from its citizens.
In 1943, as Mussolini's government fell in Italy, Mussolini became imprisoned. To save his ally, Hitler commissioned commandos under Otto Skorzeny to rescue him; the operation was to become a great success. During the planning process, Skorzeny attended several meetings with Hitler; Skorzeny observed: "All I heard was the Führer's deep voice as he put his curt questions... What struck me at the time was the unmistakeable soft Austrian accent, even when he was emphatic." In a later meeting, Skorzeny observed how much Hitler valued his friendship with Mussolini. "There was such a warm, human inflection in his voice when he spoke of his loyalty to his Italian friend that I was deeply moved", recalled Skorzeny.
In Sep 1944, Skorzeny met with Hitler again at Wolfsschanze, and noted that the war had placed apparent strain on Hitler. Skorzeny wrote:
I was deeply shocked at the appearance of the Supreme Commander, remembering how he looked when I last saw him only the previous autumn. He stooped and seemed years older, and there was a weary tone in his deep base voice. I wondered whether he had been smitten by some insidious disease. His left hand trembled so violently that he had to steady himself with his right when he got up.
Militarily, despite having no training in higher levels of military leadership, Hitler enjoyed micro-managing the operations. While this practice frequently disadvantaged the German military, the biggest negative consequence from this lack of delegation came from Hitler's indecisiveness during moments of need. For example, Hitler's delay in deploying armor in counterattacking the Allied Normandy invasion gave the Allies the critical hours necessary to secure the weak beachhead. During the Ardennes Offensive (The Battle of the Bulge as it was known to the western Allies) in Dec 1944, Hitler's insistence that the 6th SS Panzer Army report back to Berlin, instead of reporting to the field generals, caused the group to sit idle for the first crucial days of the offensive; it was often attributed by German commanders as the biggest reason for the German failure at the Ardennes. A major reason for this behavior was Hitler's distrustful nature toward others, especially after the 20 Jul 1944 assassination attempt on his life. German General Heinz Guderian made an observation of the post-20 Jul Hitler:
After the July 20th attempt, Hitler was a sick man. Even before the assassination attempt, he had been very nervous, and not in complete possession of his faculties. His left side trembled. His mind was not clear enough to appreciate the real situation of Germany. He was a man of energy and will; his will outweighed his sense. He hypnotized his entourage. He had a special picture of the world, and every fact had to fit in with that fancied pictured. As he believed, so the world must be. But, in fact, it was a picture of another world.
Another trait of Hitler's that made it difficult for military commanders to work with him was his stubbornness. Once an idea got into his head, it was nearly impossible for anyone to change his mind, even if his most trusted advisors recommended against it. "He always had his way," recalled Wilhelm Keitel. Whenever Hitler was at fault, he found a scapegoat so that he remained blameless. First-class officers were often sacrificed with dismissal so that he could remain the perfect leader atop the German military hierarchy.
The assassination attempt took place at the Wolf's Lair, Hitler's command quarters in East Prussia. While meeting with his commanders, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg placed a bomb under the table which Hitler stood next to, reviewing maps. The sturdy construction of the table and the design of the room saved Hitler from serious injuries. Hitler purged many military leaders and placed Nazi Party members in the positions left vacant by the purge. Many inept leaders, characterized by men like Josef Dietrich, rose to power; it was under Dietrich's command that the 6th SS Panzer Army sat un-utilized during the Battle of the Bulge.
Many researchers attributed part of Hitler's psychotic behavior to a possible dependency on various substances, including methamphetamine. He was known to have received various shots, some nutritional and some narcotic, on a regular basis. One must take in this fact with a critical eye, however, as some substances we know today as narcotic were not considered so and were widely accepted in upper social circles. Hitler, however, had most likely grown dependent on methamphetamine. During his last days in Berlin he was known to be lifeless and struggled even to stand from a seated position when his personal physician Dr. Theodore Morell did not provide him with his daily regimen of needles. Eventually, Hitler dismissed Morell for fear that the doctor might be convinced by other top Nazi officials to drug him and forcibly transport him away from Berlin as the Russians closed in on the city. Beyond the use of drugs, Hitler lived a rather healthy lifestyle, restraining from alcohol and tobacco, which was unlike the norm of the German influential figures at the time. The only weakness he had in terms of food was with sweets and desert, which he consumed in large quantities at times.
With the Russian army pressuring Berlin, Hitler committed suicide alongside of his companion Eva Braun beneath the Berlin Chancellery on 30 Apr 1945. Earlier that morning, Hitler married Braun in a small ceremony. That afternoon, at about 1530, Hitler pulled the trigger of a pistol against his right temple, while Braun swallowed cyanide. SS Oberscharfuehrer Rochus Misch, who was Hitler's bodyguard, courier, and telephone operator, was in Hitler's bunker during his final days, as he noted during a 2009 interview with BBC journalist Steven Rosenberg. He was working as a telephone and teletype machine operator when others in the bunker realized Hitler had pulled the trigger. He recalled:
Suddenly I heard somebody shouting to Hitler's attendant: 'Linge, Linge, I think it's happened.' They'd heard a gunshot, but I hadn't. At that moment Martin Bormann, Hitler's private secretary, ordered everyone to be silent. Everyone began whispering. I was speaking on the telephone and I made sure I talked louder on purpose because I wanted to hear something. I didn't want it to feel like we were in a death bunker.... Then Bormann ordered Hitler's door to be opened. I saw Hitler slumped with his head on the table. Eva Braun was lying on the sofa, with her head towards him. Her knees were drawn tightly up to her chest. She was wearing a dark blue dress with white frills. I will never forget it.... I watched as they wrapped Hitler up. His legs were sticking out as they carried him past me. Someone shouted to me: 'Hurry upstairs, they're burning the boss!' I decided not to go because I had noticed that Mueller from the Gestapo was there - and he was never usually around. I said to my comrade Hentschel, the mechanic: 'Maybe we will be killed for being the last witnesses.'
Hitler left behind a battered Europe and countless millions of broken families. However, he did contribute to the growth of the future Germany as well. Among his contributions were the beginning of the German superhighways infrastructure and the creation of the Volkswagen.

Sources:
Walter Görlitz, In the Service of the Reich
Colin Heaton, The German Aces Speak
William Manchester, The Arms of Krupp
William Manchester, The Last Lion
Rochus Misch, Hitler's Last Witness
Anthony Read and David Fisher, The Fall of Berlin
Otto Skorzeny, Skorzeny's Special Missions
Wikipedia
Keith Lowe, Inferno
Last Major Revision: May 2008
Famous Quote(s)
• "I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the enmity that brings far more costs than any possible benefits... It would be a wonderful thing for all of humanity if both peoples would renounce force against each other forever. The German people are ready to make such a pledge."
» 14 Oct 1933
• "The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd."
» 30 Jan 1934
• "Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affairs of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss."
» 21 May 1935
• "Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland... We shall adhere to it unconditionally... we recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people."
» 21 May 1935
• "National Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe... The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation... Germany needs peace and desires peace!"
» 21 May 1935
• "Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite... We thereby finally renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, a land for which we have fought two great wars."
» 21 May 1935
• "Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affairs of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss."
» 21 May 1935
• "I have no further interest in the Czecho-Slovakian State, that is guaranteed."
» 26 Sep 1938
• "In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power, it was in the first instance only the Jewish race that received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the state and with it that of the whole nation and that I would then among other things settle the Jewish problem...but I think that for some time now they have been laughing on the other side of their face. Today I will once more be a prophet: if the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevising of the earth and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!"
>>30 Jan 1939
• "Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers!
• » My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me."
5 Jun 1940

Adolf Hitler Timeline
20 Apr 1889 Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria–Hungary.
3 Jan 1903 Adolf Hitler's father, Alois Hitler, passed away.
21 Dec 1907 Adolf Hitler's mother, Klara Hitler (née Pölzl), passed away from breast cancer in Linz, Austria-Hungary.
18 Jan 1914 Adolf Hitler, who had registered as a stateless person in order to aviod military service in Austria-Hungary, was arrested by a München (Munich) police official and taken to the Austrian Consulate, from where he was deported to Salzburg in Austria to enter the army.
5 Feb 1914 Upon examination in Salzburg, Austria, Adolf Hitler was rejected by the Austro-Hungarian Army; army doctors deemed him unfit for service even for auxiliary units.
2 Sep 1919 Adolf Hitler joined the German Workers' Party (German: Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or simply DAP).
24 Feb 1920 Adolf Hitler made the Twenty-Five Theses speech in Munich, Germany.
29 Jul 1921 Adolf Hitler formally became the head of the Nationalsozialistische Deutches Arbeiter Partei (NSDAP), or the Nazi Party.
26 Feb 1924 Adolf Hitler was put on trial for treason for the failed Beer Hall Putsch.
1 Apr 1924 Adolf Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch; he would be released after only 9 months.
26 Feb 1925 Adolf Hitler was released from prison; on the same day, the German government allowed the Nazi Party to publish its newspaper once again.
30 Apr 1925 Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party and Ernst Röhm's SA organization (also known as Frontbann at this time) formally split.
1 May 1925 Adolf Hitler received a letter notifying him that he had failed to file tax in 1924 and in the first quarter of 1925.
18 Jul 1925 Adolf Hitler published Mein Kampf.
14 Feb 1926 In Germany, Hitler summoned the senior Nazi Party leadership to a conference at Bamberg. Speaking for five hours he rejected the alternative party programme devised by Gregor Strasser in 1920, in favour of a more revolutionary struggle for power. Hitler would emerge with greater control over Nazi Party policies.
4 Jul 1926 At the National Socialist first party congress held at Weimar, Germany, Hitler's personal authority over the party was accepted by the majority and his position of party Führer was formally approved.
14 Sep 1930 Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party received 6,371,000 votes in a national election, representing about 18% of the total votes, and gained 107 seats in the Reichstag. The party was now the second largest in the country.
10 Oct 1931 German President Paul von Hindenburg received Adolf Hitler for the first time; Hindenburg told his confidants that he was not impressed with Hitler.
7 Jan 1932 German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning met with Adolf Hitler regarding the upcoming re-election and President Paul von Hindenburg's old age. Brüning attempted to convince Hitler that they should convince the Reichstag to cancel the election and keep Hindenburg in power, but Hitler secretly considered to challenge Hindenburg in the election.
10 Jan 1932 German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning met with Adolf Hitler again regarding the upcoming re-election and President Paul von Hindenburg's old age. Brüning continued to argue for keeping Hindenburg in power without an election, and he still failed to recruit Hitler to his cause.
19 Jan 1932 Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler travelled to Munich, Germany together; en route, Goebbels attempted to convince Adolf Hitler to run for the office of the President of Germany.
9 Feb 1932 Adolf Hitler arrived in Berlin, Germany.
22 Feb 1932 Joseph Goebbels announced on Adolf Hitler's behalf that Hitler would run for the office of the President of Germany, challenging incumbent Paul von Hindenburg.
25 Feb 1932 Adolf Hitler was named a liaison to Braunschweig, German's legation to the capital city of Berlin, an appointment by which Hitler also gained citizenship of Braunschweig. As citizens of the city of Braunschweig were considered German citizens, the Austrian-born Hitler was now allowed to run for the office of the President of Germany.
13 Mar 1932 A presidential election took place in Germany; Adolf Hitler received 30.1% of votes while Paul von Hindenburg received 49.6%. Since no one received 50% of votes, a second election would be required.
10 Apr 1932 A second re-election took place in Germany between Paul von Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler as none of them received the required 50% of votes in the previous election; Hindenburg won presidency after receiving 53% of votes in the second election, while Hitler received 36.8%.
8 May 1932 Adolf Hitler departed Berlin, Germany.
30 May 1932 German President Paul von Hindenburg met with Adolf Hitler.
27 Jul 1932 Adolf Hitler spoke to three separate large crowds in the Berlin-Potsdam area in Germany.
4 Aug 1932 Adolf Hitler arrived in Berlin, Germany.
5 Aug 1932 Adolf Hitler spoke with Kurt von Schleicher and demanded German Chancellorship.
13 Aug 1932 Adolf Hitler spoke with German President Paul von Hindenburg and demanded Chancellorship with the power to dissolve the Reichstag as he saw fit. Hindenburg did not accept the demand.
25 Aug 1932 Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels traveled from Berlin to Berchtesgaden in München-Oberbayern, Germany.
19 Nov 1932 German President Paul von Hindenburg met with Adolf Hitler during which Hitler demanded Chancellorship. Hindenburg offered Hitler Chancellorship which had no power to dissolve the Reichstag (thus forcing the Nazi Party to work with rival parties), or the Vice Chancellor position under Franz von Papen.
21 Nov 1932 Adolf Hitler again attempted to argue for his appointment as German Chancellor with the power to dissolve the Reichstag; President Paul von Hindenburg again refused to grant him such powers.
3 Dec 1932 The former German Defence Minister and recently named German Chancellor General Kurt von Schleicher offered Gregor Strasser (the Organization leader of the NSDAP) the post of vice-chancellor in a coalition government. Hitler, sensing it was a move by Schleicher to split the Nazi Party, ordered Strasser to stop any further negotiations with the Government.
5 Dec 1932 Adolf Hitler and Gregor Strasser argued over whether Nazi Party should work with the new German Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher.
7 Dec 1932 Adolf Hitler and Gregor Strasser again argued over whether Nazi Party should work with the new German Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher. Reaching no agreement, Hitler would soon purge Strasser and his supporters from the party to consolidate Hitler's position.
4 Jan 1933 Franz von Papen and Adolf Hitler met at the home of aristocratic banker Kurt von Schröder's home in Cologne, Germany and secretly made plans to together work against Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher.
5 Jan 1933 The secret meeting between Franz von Papen and Adolf Hitler in Cologne, Germany on the previous day was exposed to the public, damaging both men's reputation.
30 Jan 1933 Adolf Hitler was named the Chancellor of Germany; three of the eleven cabinet posts were given to Nazi Party members. President Paul von Hindenburg required Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen to accompany Hitler for all meetings between the President and the Chancellor, thinking that would be sufficient to prevent Hitler from committing any drastic changes. As soon as 1700 hours on the very same day, Hitler made his first bid for greater power by demanding a re-election of the Reichstag, a motion which was defeated at this time.
31 Jan 1933 The newly appointed German Chancellor Adolf Hitler made a half-sincere attempt to negotiate with the Center Party to form a majority in the Reichstag. As intended, the negotiation failed, which gave Hitler the grounds to demand a re-election in the Reichstag. The re-election was approved by Reichstag President and fellow Nazi Party member Hermann Göring, and was scheduled to take place on 5 Mar 1933.
2 Feb 1933 In Berlin, Germany, Adolf Hitler met with top military leaders, ensuring that he would cooperate with the military, easing their fears that the Nazi SA organization would one day overtake the traditional military. On the same day, he attended the premiere of the film "Dawn" which was set in a doomed German submarine and was about sacrifice in war.
23 Feb 1933 Adolf Hitler announced his wish to gain Lebensraum for German people.
7 Apr 1933 The Gau organization, the large permanent offices of the Reich representatives, was established in law to centralize the political structure of Germany. Hitler appointed himself as the Reich representative for Prussia.
25 Apr 1933 Hitler appointed a prominent German Christian, Ludwig Müller (a former Army chaplain and an enthusiastic National Socialist), as his representative in the drawing up of a new constitution for a unified Reich church.
22 Jun 1933 Adolf Hitler issued orders to dissolve the Social Democratic Party.
23 Sep 1933 Adolf Hitler made an announcement in Nürnberg, Germany stressing the importance of separating the functions of the Nazi SA organization and the German Army.
24 Dec 1933 Adolf Hitler granted amnesty to the about 27,000 prisoners currently being held in concentration camps; Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler would both circumvent this order, resulting in far fewer actually being released.
28 Feb 1934 At a conference in the Great Hall of the Army General Staff Building on Bendlerstrasse, Berlin, Germany, Hitler told the assembled senior Army and SA officers in no uncertain terms that the Army would be the sole bearer of arms, although for the time being the SA would continue its frontier protection duties and paramilitary training. In addition, Hitler informed the delegates that the Army must be organized to carry out training to be ready for a defensive war in five years and a war of aggression in eight years.
4 Jun 1934 In a four-hour meeting German Chancellor Adolf Hitler instructed SA leader Ernsrt Röhm to send the 4,500,000 men of the SA on leave for the month of Jul 1934 and Röhm himself to take sick leave for a few weeks.
13 Jun 1934 Adolf Hitler and Mussolini met in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later described the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
21 Jun 1934 German President Paul von Hindenburg, with Minister of War Werner von Blomberg at his side, met with Adolf Hitler. Hindenburg told Hitler to back down politically, or he would declare martial law, which would remove powers from Hitler, giving them to the military instead.
29 Jun 1934 Adolf Hitler visited Nazi Party camps in Westphalia, Germany.
2 Jul 1934 German President Paul von Hindenburg expressed appreciation for Adolf Hitler's decisiveness in executing the measures to put down the putsch by the Nazi Party SA organization before it took shape.
13 Jul 1934 Adolf Hitler claimed to the German Reichstag that the Night of the Long Knives massacres were justified as the Nazi Party SA organization was planning a putsch. Although Hitler presented no concrete evidence, the Reichstag accepted the claim, thus legalizing the murders.
2 Aug 1934 Hitler changed the military oath so that German servicemen now swore allegiance to Hitler rather than the country.
8 Aug 1934 Per orders given by Adolf Hitler six days prior, the German Wehrmacht swore a personal oath of loyalty to Hitler rather than to the country.
15 Aug 1934 Oskar von Hindenburg, son of the recently deceased German President Paul von Hindenburg, falsely proclaimed that it was his father's wish to have Adolf Hitler succeeded him as the President of Germany.
19 Aug 1934 Hitler officially became the Führer und Reichskanzler of Germany.
4 Sep 1934 Adolf Hitler arrived at Nürnberg, Germany for the 4th Nazi Party rally.
9 Sep 1934 Adolf Hitler reviewed a SA formation at the 4th Nazi Party rally in Nürnberg, Germany; in light of the recent purge of the SA, the SS placed a very heavy guard around Hitler's reviewing stand, but the parade would be uneventful.
1 Apr 1935 Hitler formally announced the re-establishment of the German armed forces outside the terms permitted by the Versailles treaty.
3 Mar 1936 Adolf Hitler played host to the former British Liberal Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, at his Berghof residence in München–Oberbayern (Bavaria), Germany.
13 Mar 1936 Adolf Hitler spoke publicly at Karlsruhe, Germany.
16 Jun 1936 Adolf Hitler departed Venice, Italy, returning to Germany.
5 Nov 1936
Adolf Hitler told his top lieutenants that the German aim in the Spanish Civil War was not entirely to aid the Spanish Nationalists, but rather, to prolong the conflict to occupy the attention of the United Kingdom and France, and to continue to widen the chasm between the United Kingdom and Italy.
30 Jan 1937 The Enabling Act of Mar 1933 was renewed by the German Reichstag even though Frick's Interior Ministry had wanted the government to have a larger say, and the Reichstag to give formal assent to new laws. The formal legal principle was retained that laws were, in theory, approved by "the Reich government as a collegium", and not by Hitler alone (this despite the fact that Hitler had long abandoned any pretence what the State was governed by a collective leadership, and instead issued decrees and directives on his own behalf). In a speech to the Reichstag upon the renewal, Hitler formally declared the German withdrawal from the Treaty of Versailles.
29 Apr 1937 In a speech to local party district leaders Adolf Hitler explained that only one political party was needed in a society united with one will.
1 May 1937 Adolf Hitler declared that all German children were to be raised as loyal Nazi Germans.
13 Jun 1937 Chinese Minister of Finance Kong Xiangxi (Wade-Giles: Kung Hsiang-hsi; alternate: H. H. Kung) met with Adolf Hitler at Berghof, Berchtesgaden, Germany. Kong persuaded Hitler to place more distance between Germany and Japan, while Hitler offered Kong German industrial investment in China and a loan (the latter of which was rejected).
18 Jul 1937 Hitler opened the Exhibition of German Art but was outraged at some of the paintings, submitted for his approval, which he declared to be too modernist for display.
4 Oct 1937 Hitler issued a comprehensive law for "the reconstruction of German cities", with priority being given to the rebuilding of Berlin.
27 Jan 1938 Adolf Hitler directed that a high priority was to be given to the "Z" plan proposal for the reconstruction of the Kriegsmarine.
4 Feb 1938 Adolf Hitler took direct control of the German military.
15 Mar 1938 Adolf Hitler stayed at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, Austria.
26 Aug 1938 Adolf Hitler toured the Westwall defenses in western Germany.
13 Sep 1938 Adolf Hitler met with Joachim von Ribbentrop at Martin Bormann's home in Munich, Germany.
14 Sep 1938 Adolf Hitler departed Munich, Germany for his home in Obersalzberg in southern Germany.
20 Sep 1938 Adolf Hitler pressed the Hungarians to assert greater demands on Czechoslovakia.
24 Sep 1938 Adolf Hitler arrived in Berlin, Germany.
25 Jan 1939 Adolf Hitler resolved to wipe the entire Polish state off the map should Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's final approach to persuade the Poles of German territorial proposals become rejected.
27 Jan 1939 Adolf Hitler ordered Plan Z, the expansion of the German Navy.
30 Jan 1939 In a Reichstag speech, Adolf Hitler spoke of German-Polish peace and warned that if the "international Jewish financiers" threatened the world with another war, he would embark on eliminating the Jews to rid the world of this threat.
24 Mar 1939 Adolf Hitler returned from recently annexed Memel to Berlin, Germany.
1 Apr 1939 At the launching ceremony of German battleship Tirpitz, Adolf Hitler gave a fiery speech that was so extreme that it was decided at the last minute that it would not be broadcast to foreign nations in fear of talks of war provocation. The broadcast to the United States was cut off halfway, leading to false rumors that Adolf Hitler was assassinated amidst the speech.
28 Apr 1939 In a two-hour speech to the German Reichstag which was widely broadcast around the world, Adolf Hitler repudiated the Anglo-German Naval Agreement and expressed the wish to annex Danzig. In regards to the recent British-Polish treaty, Hitler claimed that it broke the terms of the 1934 German-Polish non-aggression treaty, thus the 1934 agreement was now void; he was, however, willing to negotiate a new one with Poland. Finally, addressing US President Franklin Roosevelt's letter of 14 Apr 1939, in which Roosevelt requested Germany to guarantee the borders of 31 nations, Hitler noted the result of the subsequent survey that revealed most of the nations (Poland excluded) responded they were not at all threatened by Germany.
3 Sep 1939 Adolf Hitler departed Berlin, Germany for the Eastern Front.
17 Sep 1939 Adolf Hitler arrived in Berlin, Germany.
18 Sep 1939 Adolf Hitler arrived in Danzig; he would remain in the region for the next week, staying at the Casino Hotel in Zoppot.
19 Sep 1939 Adolf Hitler entered Danzig and again proposed a peace with Britain and France, provided Germany was allowed to retain the territory that Germany had already seized. He also referred to "weapons with which we ourselves cannot be attacked", which led to speculation that Germany is developing secret weapons.
25 Sep 1939 Adolf Hitler arrived in Berlin, Germany.
5 Oct 1939 Hitler visited Warsaw, Poland and held a victory parade.
6 Oct 1939 In a speech at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, Adolf Hitler noted that he did not wish to wage war against France and the United Kingdom, and it would not be worth the blood of British, French, and German soldiers for Poland, since it was created unjustly by the Versailles Treaty. He proposed a multi-power conference to achieve peace.
8 Nov 1939 An assassination attempt on Hitler by German carpenter Georg Elser failed at the annual commemoration of the Beer Hall Putsch in München, Germany. Ostensibly, Hitler and other top Nazi leaders escaped death because Hitler had ended his speech early and left the building eight minutes before the bomb planted by Elser detonated (which killed 8 and wounded 65). In actuality, however, it had been planned by Hitler to elevate his own standing in Germany and to create a situation where he could blame the western powers for an assassination attempt.
11 Nov 1939 Adolf Hitler attended the funeral of those killed in the staged 8 Nov 1939 assassination attempt in München, Germany.
18 Nov 1939 At Salzburg, Austria, Adolf Hitler told the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano that Benito Mussolini's invasion of Albania was to blame for the Royal Air Force being allowed to establish bombers in Greece within reach of Germany's main fuel supply, the oil fields of Ploesti, Romania. In reality, Ioannis Metaxas's government refused to allow the British to threaten the Romanian oilfields in order to avoid provoking the Germans.
2 Mar 1940 Adolf Hitler met with US Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles in Berlin, Germany.
4 Mar 1940 The Chief Executive Officer of the American firm General Motors James Mooney, holder of the German Grand Cross of the German Eagle medal for his services to Germany, met with Adolf Hitler in an attempt to dissuade Hitler from escalating the war.
12 Mar 1940 Adolf Hitler met with Colin Ross, whom Hitler considered to be his top adviser on the United States. Ross told Hitler that the United States, run by Jews, had imperialist tendencies in terms of foreign policy. Ross also advised Hitler that Franklin Roosevelt, who had come to power around the same time as Hitler, was jealous of Hitler's greater success thus was plotting with the Western Allies to defeat Germany.
9 May 1940 Adolf Hitler and his staff arrived at the Felsennest headquarters in the Westwall fortifications on the German-French border.
9 May 1940 Adolf Hitler issued the order to commence the invasion of France and the Low Countries at dawn on the following day. At noon German meteorologists made a firm forecast of clear skies on the following morning; Adolf Hitler gave the meteorology officer a medal on the spot. In the afternoon, Hitler departed Berlin, Germany for this temporary forward headquarters codenamed Felsennest near Bad Münsereifel in the Rhineland region of Germany to observe the coming invasion.
27 May 1940 In Germany, Adolf Hitler agreed to allow a limited use the tanks within thirteen miles of Dunkerque, France, but remains adamant that Dunkerque was to remain the Luftwaffe's job.
6 Jun 1940 Adolf Hitler arrived at the Wolfsschlucht headquarters at Brûly-de-Pesche, Belgium.
18 Jun 1940 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in Munich, Germany to discuss the French peace request.
25 Jun 1940 After the Germans made the French surrender at Compiègne, France, the site of the German surrender in 1918, Adolf Hitler ordered the site destroyed, including the rail car used for both 1918 and 1940 surrenders. The statue of Marshal Ferdinand Foch was spared.
29 Jun 1940 Adolf Hitler arrived at his headquarters at Tannenberg in southern Germany.
5 Jul 1940 Adolf Hitler departed from his headquarters at Tannenberg in southern Germany, returning to Berlin.
13 Jul 1940 Adolf Hitler met with top German military leaders at Obersalzberg, München-Oberbayern, Germany.
16 Jul 1940 Adolf Hitler issued Führer Directive 16 for the preparation of an invasion plan for southern Britain in mid-Aug.
19 Jul 1940 Adolf Hitler spoke to the Reichstag at the Kroll Opera House in Berlin, Germany about Allied warmongering and asked the United Kingdom to listen to reason and avoid war. Within an hour of the conclusion of the speech, the BBC broadcast an unofficial rejection to Hitler's bid for peace.
30 Jul 1940 Adolf Hitler arrived at Innsbruck, Austria.
31 Jul 1940 Adolf Hitler announced that he would decide whether the invasion of Britain was to take place in mid-Sep 1940 or May 1941 in a few days; the progress of the Luftwaffe campaign over Britain would be among the key factors in his decision process.
26 Aug 1940 Adolf Hitler ordered the transfer of 10 infantry divisions and 2 armored divisions from France to Poland. To avoid Soviet suspicion, he made plans to make this transfer appear as if these fresher troops were coming in to relieve older men who were going to be released back into the work force.
4 Sep 1940 Adolf Hitler addressed a crowd of factory workers, nurses, and relief workers during the Winter Relief Campaign at the Berlin Sportpalast, declaring that Germany would now answer British night raids on German cities with greater ferocity.
10 Sep 1940 Adolf Hitler postponed the decision for launching Operation Sealion to 14 Sep 1940.
14 Sep 1940 Adolf Hitler postponed Operation Sea Lion once again, to 17 Sep 1940. In the evening, the British RAF mounted a major attack on several launching points for the invasion of Britain, destroying several ships.
2 Oct 1940 Adolf Hitler ordered Hans Frank and other Nazi officials in occupied Poland to keep the standard of living low and to deprive the Polish population of education, for that the Polish people were now mere low laborers of Germany. Additionally, he ordered that the Polish gentry to be exterminated.
4 Oct 1940 Adolf Hitler met Benito Mussolini in the Brenner Pass on the Italian-Austrian border. Benito Mussolini was happy to notice that Adolf Hitler seemed to have given up on any talks of invading Britain.
10 Oct 1940 Adolf Hitler initiated the Führer-Sofortprogramm, an emergency program to build shelters for the urban populations of Germany.
15 Oct 1940 Adolf Hitler noted that about half the Czechs in occupied western Czechoslovakia could be assimilated into the German population. The other half, which included the intellectuals, were to be eliminated.
28 Oct 1940 Adolf Hitler traveled to Florence, Italy for a meeting with Benito Mussolini in an attempt to stop the Italians from attacking Greece, but it was too late.
28 Oct 1940 At the Axis leaders' meeting in Florence, Italy, Adolf Hitler told Benito Mussolini that "Germany could make available a division of airborne troops and a division of parachute troops" should he wish to invade Crete, Greece.
4 Nov 1940 Adolf Hitler met with his top military leaders in Berlin, Germany to explore the possibility of attacking Gibraltar, Azores Islands, Madeira, and Portugal as means to block the British Royal Navy from entering the Mediterranean Sea.
12 Nov 1940 Adolf Hitler issued Directive 18 for the capture of Gibraltar, Azores Islands, Madeira, and Portugal.
12 Nov 1940 Having realized that his staff made plans to move visiting Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov to bomb shelters in case Allied bombers attacked Berlin, Adolf Hitler realized that the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany did not have an adequate bunker, and immediate ordered for a plan to be drawn up. Digging would begin in the middle of the Chancellery garden in 1943, but the construction would never be finished.
25 Nov 1940 A Hitler decree (the basic law of social housing construction) gave Robert Ley's German Labour Front the project of building 6 million homesteads, at the rate of 300,000 per year. Priority was given to providing homes for German families with children and Hitler alone kept personal responsibility for deciding how many houses should be built. The decree stated that houses were to have a minimum floor area of 62 square metres, a kitchen, two bedrooms, bathroom, hallway and balcony. Each home was also to have an air-raid shelter built to resist a direct hit and large enough to house everyone in the family.
1 Jan 1941 In Hitler's New Year's Order of the Day, he promised the Wehrmacht the completion of the "greatest victory in our history" on the Western Front.
8 Jan 1941 Adolf Hitler hosted a two-day military conference at his Berghof residence in southern Germany, where he stated that Germany would continue to support Italian efforts in North Africa despite it being a secondary theater, the Soviet Union must be brought down, southern France might need to be occupied, and, for the first time, told the military leaders to prepare Germany for the possibility of American entry into the war.
9 Jan 1941 Adolf Hitler and his top military leaders completed the two-day conference at Hitler's residence of Berghof in München-Oberbayern, Germany.
18 Feb 1941 Adolf Hitler met with tank generals and tank designers at his residence Berghof in southern Germany. He insisted on using larger (either 50-millimeter or 75-millimeter) high velocity guns for Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks. He also demanded some soldiers to be released from the front to man tank factories.
5 Mar 1941 Adolf Hitler issued the order to the German Foreign Ministry to try to draw Japan into the war by attacking British possessions in Asia, but it was still important to keep the United States out of the war at this point.
16 Mar 1941 Adolf Hitler predicted that the United Kingdom would fall by 1942.
30 Mar 1941 In a lengthy speech in the Cabinet Room of the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Hitler told his assembled commanders of his intention to "exterminate" communism "for all time".
12 Apr 1941 Adolf Hitler arrived at Mönichkirchen, Germany (occupied Austria) via his personal train Amerika. He would remain in his village to oversee the operations in the Balkan Peninsula.
20 Apr 1941 Adolf Hitler celebrated his birthday at the temporary headquarters Frühlingssturm in eastern Austria.
4 May 1941 In a speech, Adolf Hitler said Winston Churchill was not a capable leader, both on political and military fronts.
5 May 1941 Adolf Hitler visited the German naval yard at Gdynia and inspected battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz.
11 May 1941 Adolf Hitler summoned top Nazi Party officials to discuss how to handle Rudolf Heß's unauthorized flight to the United Kingdom.
6 Jun 1941 Hitler implemented the Kommissarbefehl, or Commissar Order, which would bring about the summary execution of any captured Soviet political commissars; this order would be ignored by most German Army commanders.
21 Jun 1941 In the afternoon, Adolf Hitler wrote a message to Benito Mussolini, informing him of the upcoming invasion of the Soviet Union. This message would not reach Mussolini until early in the next day, less than an hour before the operation began.
23 Jun 1941 Adolf Hitler arrived for the first time at his new secret Wolfsschanze (English: The Wolf's Lair) headquarters, which had been constructed in the Masurian woods near Rastenburg, Germany (now Ketrzyn, Poland).
24 Jun 1941 Adolf Hitler arrived at the Wolfsschanze headquarters in East Prussia, Germany.
16 Jul 1941 Adolf Hitler instructed that Ukraine and the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia were to be annexed into Greater Germany in the future, while East Karelia in northern Russia was to be given to Finland. In secret, he instructed other German leaders to prepare plans for a possible future annexation of Finland.
19 Jul 1941 Adolf Hitler ordered that American shipping were not to be attacked by German forces in order to keep the United States from fully entering the war.
4 Aug 1941 Adolf Hitler visited Fedor von Bock's Army Group Center headquarters in the Soviet Union. The anti-Nazi officer plotted to arrest Adolf Hitler upon arrival, but failed to do so as he had under-estimated Hitler's personal guards.
21 Aug 1941 Adolf Hitler directed the transfer of units away from the Moscow, Russia area in order to bolster the siege on Leningrad (aiming for the linking up with Finnish forces) and the battles in Ukraine (aiming for the oil fields in the Caucasus region).
26 Aug 1941 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini inspected Axis troops at Uman, Ukraine.
6 Sep 1941 Hitler issued Directive 35 for Operation Typhoon, which he intended should destroy in a swift blow any remaining Soviet resistance.
3 Oct 1941 At the Berliner Sportpalast in the German capital, Adolf Hitler announced during a rally that the Germans had captured 2,500,000 Soviet prisoners of war, destroyed or captured 22,000 guns, destroyed or captured 18,000 tanks, destroyed 14,500 aircraft, and since 1939 had expanded Germany by an area four times as large as Britain. He stressed that the Soviet Union had been broken and would never rise again.
31 Oct 1941 To ease labour shortages, Hitler agreed that Soviet prisoners of war could be used in the Reich, as long as they were isolated from the Home population.
8 Nov 1941 At the annual Beer Hall Putsch speech, Adolf Hitler claimed that the war with Soviet Union was effectively won, citing 3.6 million prisoners taken, and by conjecture the Soviet forces must had suffered eight to ten million casualties thus far. In regards to the United States, Hitler noted that the aggressive US President Franklin Roosevelt had ordered American ships to deliberately attack any German submarines they crossed, while Hitler continued to order restraint for German submarine captains; nevertheless, he noted that the submarines would fight back fiercely should they be fired upon.
13 Nov 1941 Adolf Hitler ordered the German Navy to restraint from attacking American ships, but should German warships be fired upon by the Americans, they were to fire back in defense.
25 Nov 1941 Adolf Hitler met with Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, agreeing on the need for the elimination of the "Jewish element".
8 Dec 1941 Adolf Hitler ordered the German Navy to begin attacking American shipping.
9 Dec 1941 Adolf Hitler arrived in Berlin, Germany at 1100 hours. He decided to declare war on the United States on this date, but decided to withhold the announcement until 11 Dec in order to have enough time to draft his speech.
11 Dec 1941 Adolf Hitler announced that since the start of the war against the Soviet Union, the German forces had captured 3,806,865 Soviet prisoners of war.
18 Dec 1941 Hitler finally accepted Brauchitsch's resignation, and took personal command of the Army and all Eastern Front operations. He fired Feldmarschall Bock, replacing him with Kluge.
7 Jan 1942 During a meeting with top German leaders, Adolf Hitler noted his belief that the United States' commercial prowess would not be able to overcome the Axis powers.
30 Jan 1942 Adolf Hitler spoke at the Berlin Sports Palace, threatening the Jews of the world with annihilation.
20 Feb 1942 Adolf Hitler ordered that any Russian who refused to work would be punished with death by hanging. Additionally, Russians working in German-occupied lands had no limit to their work days, and their employers were free to issue corporal punishment.
15 Mar 1942 Adolf Hitler predicted a victory over the Soviet Union by the end of the summer of 1942.
14 Apr 1942 Adolf Hitler ordered the German Luftwaffe to recommence air attacks on United Kingdom with an emphasis of bombing cities with no particular industrial value but of great beauty. The British soon called these raids "Baedeker" raids after the famous German 19th-century tourist guide.
26 Apr 1942 A law passed by the German Reichstag granted Hitler the right to change laws by decree without discussion by the Reichstag. The German dictator had now been given complete despotic power and Germany has ceased to be a state whose structure was based on the rule of law.
28 Apr 1942 The German Reichstag passed the legislation marking Adolf Hitler as the "Supreme Judge of the German People," formalizing his status above the law.
30 Apr 1942 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at Berchtesgaden in southern Germany to discuss Mediterranean strategy; priority was given to capturing the Suez Canal and neutralizing Malta. Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano noted that Hitler appeared to be very tired.
4 Jun 1942 Hitler traveled to Finland to meet with Marshal Mannerheim.
21 Jun 1942 Adolf Hitler reluctantly decided to delay his summer offensive due to the heavy Soviet defense of Sevastopol, Russia.
3 Jul 1942 Adolf Hitler arrived at Poltava, Ukraine to meet with Fedor von Bock to discuss the offensive in southern Russia.
16 Jul 1942 Adolf Hitler arrived at his Wehrwolf headquarters at Vinnytsia, Ukraine.
17 Jul 1942 Adolf Hitler traveled from the Wolfsschanze headquarters in East Prussia, Germany to the headquarters in Vinnitsa, Ukraine.
18 Aug 1942 Adolf Hitler issued the Commando Order that all Allied commandos encountered by German forces in Europe and Africa should be killed immediately, even if in uniform or if they attempted to surrender.
18 Oct 1942 Adolf Hitler issued his Kommando Befehl, ordering that any captured Soviet commandos be shot.
7 Nov 1942 Adolf Hitler departed the Wolfsschanze headquarters at Rastenburg, Ostpreußen, Germany (now Ketrzyn, Poland) for München, traveling aboard his private train Amerika.
20 Nov 1942 Adolf Hitler relinquished personal command of Armeegruppe A to General Ewald von Kleist.
25 Nov 1942 Adolf Hitler ordered the seizure of the French fleet at Toulon, France.
22 Dec 1942 Adolf Hitler signed the decree drafted by Albert Speer for the mass production of the A-4 rocket; this decree did not provide any special priority for rocket production.
1 Jan 1943 Frustrated with the poor performance of the German Navy, Adolf Hitler angrily ordered the decommissioning of the entire German high seas fleet.
21 Jan 1943 Adolf Hitler told Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima that he would welcome Japanese assistance in defeating Russia.
17 Feb 1943 Adolf Hitler arrived at the headquarters of German Army Group South.
19 Feb 1943 Adolf Hitler departed the headquarters of German Army Group South.
3 Mar 1943 Hitler survived an assassination attempt.
13 Mar 1943 A plot to assassinate Hitler during a flight from Smolensk, Russia to Rastenburg, Germany failed.
21 Mar 1943 Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Wilhelm Keitel, Karl Dönitz, Heinrich Himmler, Fedor von Bock, Erhard Milch, and others visited the Zeughaus in Berlin, Germany to inspect an exhibition featuring captured Soviet weapons. It was Hitler's first public event in four months. At the Zeughaus, Colonel Rudolf von Gersdorff wore an overcoat packed with explosives with the intention of killing Hitler, but Hitler's schedule changed unexpectedly, and Hitler's early departure from the exhibition caused the assassination attempt to be called off. After departing from the exhibition, the group of German leaders attended a memorial ceremony for the Heroes' Memorial Day.
6 May 1943 Adolf Hitler made an unusual public appearance at Viktor Lutze's funeral.
13 Jul 1943 Adolf Hitler told Erich von Manstein that the forces to repel the Allied thrust through Italy and the Balkans would have to be found from the Eastern Front.
27 Jul 1943 Adolf Hitler held a conference with Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Erwin Rommel, and Karl Dönitz.
27 Aug 1943 Adolf Hitler met with Erich von Manstein at the Wehrwolf headquarters in Ukraine. This was his final visit to this headquarters site.
16 Sep 1943 Adolf Hitler, Otto Skorzeny, Ambassador Hewel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Hitler's secretaries Fräulein Wolf and Frau Traudl Jung had midnight tea between 0000 and 0100 hours. Hitler said during tea that "Germany must be cleaned up after the war. We will draw our coming men from the fighting soldiers, but traitors must be rooted out now. Don't forget how Clemenceau dealt with the enemy within in 1914. he ruthlessly rounded them up and had them shot, thereby saving France. We must get rid of deserters and mutineers behind the front. Traitors always work on the same lines - to let the enemy in by the back door."
22 Dec 1943 Hitler instituted a National Socialist Leadership Staff at Supreme Headquarters under General Hermann Reinecke with the role of training Political Officers (Commissars) to all major military units.
28 Dec 1943 Adolf Hitler ordered the demolition of the Wehrwolf headquarters north of Vinnytsia, Ukraine. "There must be a special detachment at Vinnitsa to burn the whole headquarters down and blow it up", he ordered. "It is important there should be no furniture left, otherwise the Russians will send it to Moscow and put it on display. Burn the lot."
30 Mar 1944 Adolf Hitler fired Paul von Kleist and Erich von Manstein, replacing them with Ferdinand Schörner and Walter Model.
25 Apr 1944 Adolf Hitler made his last major public appearance at Hans-Valentin Hube's funeral in Berlin, Germany.
21 May 1944 Adolf Hitler ordered downed Allied airmen to be shot without trial.
26 May 1944 Adolf Hitler delivered a speech at Der Platterhof hotel in Obersalzberg, Germany, justifying the continuation of the war.
29 Jun 1944 Erwin Rommel and Gerd von Rundstedt met with Adolf Hitler at Hitler's residence in Berchtesgaden, southern Germany. They urged Hitler to pursue peace, but Htiler rejected such a notion, saying that the V weapons would soon turn the tide of war.
7 Jul 1944 Adolf Hitler attended an inspection of newly designed uniforms at Schloss Klessheim at Wals-Siezenheim, Austria.
9 Jul 1944 Adolf Hitler departed the Wolfsschlucht II headquarters in Margival, France for the Wolfsschanze headquarters in East Prussia, Germany.
14 Jul 1944 Hitler departed his Berghof residence Berchtesgaden, Germany, never to return there again.
22 Aug 1944 Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of Paris, France on the following day.
19 Oct 1944 Adolf Hitler ordered the complete and total destruction of the city of Warsaw, Poland.
8 Nov 1944 For the first time, Hitler did not appear at the celebration of the Beer Hall Putsch anniversary; instead, he had Himmler read his speech for him.
20 Nov 1944 For the last time, Hitler left the Wolfsschanze Headquarters for Berlin, Germany.
10 Dec 1944 Adolf Hitler arrived at the Adlerhorst headquarters in Wetterau, Germany.
15 Jan 1945 Adolf Hitler departed the Adlerhorst headquarters in Wetterau, Germany, returning to Berlin.
16 Jan 1945 Adolf Hitler arrived in Berlin, Germany, and would remain here until the end of his life.
19 Jan 1945 Adolf Hitler ordered that any attacks or retreats by divisions or larger units must be approved by him beforehand.
13 Feb 1945 Heinz Guderian and Adolf Hitler argued on the Eastern Front situation; Guderian would later make note of Hitler's inability to control his rage.
24 Feb 1945 Adolf Hitler made what was to be his last speech to Reischsleiters and Gauleiters in the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany.
11 Mar 1945 Adolf Hitler made a surprise visit to 9th Army headquarters in Saarow between Frankfurt an der Oder and Berlin in Germany.
10 Apr 1945 Adolf Hitler sent his servants ahead of him to Berchtesgaden, Germany to prepare for his arrival scheduled for 20 Apr 1945.
20 Apr 1945 Soviet artillery began to fall on Berlin, Germany on Adolf Hitler's 56th and last birthday. After a brief birthday celebration, the generals urged Hitler to flee Berlin for southern Germany to continue the fight; Hitler decided not to go, setting up a northern command (under Karl Dönitz) and a southern command (tentatively under Albert Kesselring) instead should Berlin fall.
22 Apr 1945 Adolf Hitler recognized that the war was lost, and released all non-essential personnel from the Führerbunker in Berlin, Germany. He assured those dismissed that "nobody is now duty-bound to anything."
29 Apr 1945 Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun in his bunker in Berlin, Germany, and began dictating his final political testament and will.
30 Apr 1945 The recently married Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in Berlin, Germany. Their bodies were burned near the Chancellery bunker.
5 May 1945 SMERSH agents attached to Soviet 3rd Shock Army found two burned bodies in a bomb crater near the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany and buried them without much thinking.
6 May 1945 SMERSH agents of Soviet 3rd Shock Army sneaked into a section of Berlin, Germany occupied by a different Soviet unit to secretly retrieve two burned bodies near the Chancellery; they believed that one of them might be that of Adolf Hitler's.
8 May 1945 A special medical commission of Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front headed by Lieutenant Colonel Faust Shkaravsky performed an autopsy on the two bodies retrieved near the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, one of which was suspected to be that of Adolf Hitler's. He noted that a part of the skull on one of the bodies was missing, but the cause of death of that person was more likely cyanide poisoning.
9 May 1945 Soviet SMERSH agents arrested Käthe Heusermann, chief assistant to Adolf Hitler's dentist Dr. Hugo Blaschke, to assist in the identification of the body retrieved in Berlin, Germany which was suspected to be that of Hitler's.
11 May 1945 Military medical doctor Lieutenant Colonel Faust Shkaravsky of Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front concluded that one of the two bodies Soviet SMERSH agents retrieved near the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany was that of Adolf Hitler's.
1 Nov 1945 British Intelligence reported that Adolf Hitler most likely committed suicide on 30 Apr 1945 in Berlin, Germany after marrying Eva Braun."

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