Later the same day Hitler received a postcard telling him that he had been accepted for membership of what was at that time the German Workers ' Party.

In March 1933, one month after the Reichstag fire, the then president, Paul von Hindenburg, a retired war hero, gave Hitler ultimate power through Enabling Act of 1933, he remained at the post of Federal Government Chancellor ( though he called himself the Führer ).

But By the Way was one of the few features kept continuously running in the often seriously reduced Daily Express throughout World War II, when Morton's lampooning of Hitler, including the British invention of bracerot to make the Nazi's trousers fall down at inopportune moments, was regarded as valuable for morale.

In fact Hitler intended to start an unlimited war, at a much later date than 1939.

" I was determined to go ahead ", he later wrote, " for Hitler must be laughed at.

The Nazi propaganda depicted Weimar as " a morass of corruption, degeneracy, national humiliation, ruthless persecution of the honest ' national opposition ' —- fourteen years of rule by Jews, Marxists and ' cultural Bolsheviks ', who had at last been swept away by the National Socialist movement under Adolf Hitler and the victory of the ' national revolution ' of 1933.

In 1938 Germany annexed Austria and Italy assisted in Germany in resolving the diplomatic crisis between Germany versus Britain and France over claims on Czecholslovakia by arranging the Munich Agreement that gave Germany the Sudetenland and was perceived at the time to have averted a European war, these hopes faded when Hitler violated the Munich Agreement by ordering the invasion and partition of Czechoslovakia between Germany and a client state of Slovakia in 1939.

Boys served as apprentices in the Pimpfen (" cubs ") beginning at the age of six, and at age 10, entered the Deutsches Jungvolk (" Young German Boys ") and served there until entering the Hitler Youth proper at age 14.

Hindenburg died at nine o ' clock, making Hitler head of state as well as head of government.

Hitler had long been at odds with Röhm and felt increasingly threatened by these plans and in the " Night of the Long Knives " in 1934 killed Röhm and the top SA leaders using their notorious homosexuality as an excuse.

Himmler and Heydrich wanted to extend the power of the SS ; thus, they urged Hitler to form a national police force overseen by the SS, to guard Nazi Germany against its many enemies at the time — real and imagined.

Heydrich calculated the number of Jews to be killed at 11 million, and told the attendees that Hitler had placed Himmler in charge of the plan.

Hitler typically did not issue written orders, but gave them verbally at meetings or in phone conversations ; he also had Bormann convey orders.

The principle required absolute obedience of all subordinates to their superiors ; thus Hitler viewed the government structure as a pyramid, with himself — the infallible leader — at the apex.

It has even been reported, although apparently without historical documentation, that Adolf Hitler was influenced by concave hollow-Earth ideas and sent an expedition in an unsuccessful attempt to spy on the British fleet by pointing infrared cameras up at the sky

On 30 April, Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide, after which Soviet forces found their remains, which had been burned at Hitler's directive.

Adolf Hitler was the guest of honor at the wedding.

Hitler was in Munich at the same time and entered politics as a result of similar experiences.

Later he wrote: " Adolf Hitler, I love you because you are both great and simple at the same time.

" Fest also suggests a psychological motive: " A man who conformed so little to the National Socialist image of the elite ... may have had his reason, in the struggles for power at Hitler ’ s court, for offering keen anti-Semitism as a counterweight to his failure to conform to a type.

On 9 November, the evening vom Rath died of his wounds, Goebbels was at the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich with Hitler, celebrating the anniversary of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch with a large crowd of veteran Nazis.

Since his offices were close to the Chancellery, he was a frequent guest for lunch, during which he became adept at listening to Hitler ’ s monologues and agreeing with his opinions.

Bormann exploited the disaster at Stalingrad, and his daily access to Hitler, to persuade him to create a three-man junta representing the State, the Army, and the Party, represented respectively by Hans Lammers, head of the Reich Chancellery, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the OKW ( armed forces high command ), and Bormann, who controlled the Party and access to the Führer.

Hitler did just that 23 years ago, building up tensions that first led to a Munich and then to a world war.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

* 1914 – Alan Bullock, British author of the first biography of Hitler written in any language.

At first Hitler was jubilant, but the Italian reaction surprised and convinced him that he can not even face a conflict with the powers of Western Europe, officially denied liability stating its regret for the murder of Austrian Prime Minister.

During World War II, in order to protect it from advancing allied forces, Hitler ordered the king ’ s coffin, as well as those of Frederick the Great and Paul von Hindenburg, into hiding, first to Berlin and later to a salt mine outside of Bernestrode.

In a more specific sense, Gleichschaltung refers to the legal measures taken by the government during the first months following January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.

Ribbentrop used this privilege to go through the incoming diplomatic messages, snatching certain messages, taking them to Hitler and having a reply written without Neurath or von Bülow being informed first.

In the first of his two reports to Hitler, which was presented on 2 January 1938, Ribbentrop stated that " England is our most dangerous enemy ".

On 21 March 1939, Hitler first went public with his demand that Danzig rejoin the Reich and for " extra-territorial " roads across the Polish Corridor.

Despite his opposition to Operation Barbarossa and a preference for focusing the war effort against Britain, on 28 June 1941, Ribbentrop began a sustained effort to have Japan attack the Soviet Union without bothering to inform Hitler first.

At first, according to Riefenstahl ’ s memoir, she resisted and did not want to create further Nazi films ; instead, she wanted to direct a feature film based on Hitler ’ s favourite opera, Eugen d ' Albert's Tiefland.

The main target of the prosecution was Hermann Göring ( at the left edge on the first row of benches ), considered to be the most important surviving official in the Third Reich | Third Reich after Adolf Hitler | Hitler's death.

While planning Barbarossa in 1940 – 1941, in many discussions with his generals, Hitler repeated his order: " Leningrad first, the Donetsk Basin second, Moscow third.

* Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall ( 1972 ), a film of the first volume of his autobiography.

The first tabloid, Blitz was started by Russy Karanjia on February 1, 1941 with the words " Our Blitz, India's Blitz against Hitler !".

The challenge came from dictators, first Benito Mussolini of Italy, then Adolf Hitler of a much more powerful Nazi Germany.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

** Adolf Hitler makes his first public political speech, in Austria.

After Neville Chamberlain's first visit to Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden, Powell wrote in a letter to his parents of 18 September 1938:

Also on that day, Hans Schemm met Hitler for the first time.

Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart ; he later held several important posts in the Nazi government.

Shortly afterwards, Raeder had his first private meeting with Hitler, and came away impressed, believing that if Hitler was no navalist, then he could be made into one just like his mentor Tirpitz had converted Wilhelm II to navalism.

On 27 January 1939 Hitler approved the Plan Z presented to him by Raeder, and ordered that henceforth the Kriesgmarine would be first in regards to allocation of money and raw materials, marking the first time during Raeder's tenure that the Navy had enjoyed such a position, indeed the first time since 1912 that the Navy had been given the first call on the defence budget.