Powell further claimed that even if nuclear weapons had not existed, the Russians would still not have invaded Western Europe: " What has prevented that from happening was ... the fact that the Soviet Union knew ... that such an action on its part would have led to a third world war -— a long war, bitterly fought, a war which in the end the Soviet Union would have been likely to lose on the same basis and in the same way as the corresponding war was lost by Napoleon, by the Emperor Wilhelm and by Adolf Hitler.

The third poem, " The Brenner " ( 24 lines ), had been written on 18 March 1940 to mark the meeting of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler on the Brenner Pass.

She was born in Stockholm the third child of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife, Princess Margaret of Connaught.

During the race in heavy rain two track marshals died when Adolf Rosenberger lost control and hit into the indicator board and the timekeeper's box, a third employee succumbed to his injuries in hospital a few hours later.

She was a granddaughter of Adolf Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, by his third wife, Christiane Emilie Antonie, Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

Adolf, the third son of Frederick I and the second youngest half-brother of King Christian III, founded the dynastic branch called House of Holstein-Gottorp, which is a cadet branch of the then royal Danish House of Oldenburg.

According to The Man Who Was M: The Life of Charles Henry Maxwell Knight by Anthony Masters, ISBN 0-631-13392-5, The Link was allegedly resurrected in 1940 by Ian Fleming, then working in the Department of Naval Intelligence, in order to successfully lure Rudolf Hess ( deputy party leader and third in leadership of Germany, after Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring ) to Britain in May 1941.

In August 1939, the future third Baron was part of a secret delegation sent to Germany by Lord Halifax to offer Adolf Hitler concessions on the assurance that he would not invade Poland.

In the first chapter they meet a young Adolf Hitler, in the second the French heroine Joan of Arc, in the third the goddess Nike, in the fourth Marie Antoinette, and in the last chapter the Cheyenne and Custer.

In 1544 the so-called " one-third duchy " was ceded to Adolf, third son of King Frederick I of Denmark and the youngest half-brother of King Christian III of Denmark.

His performance in the 1862 London tournament, the first international round-robin event ( in which each participant plays every other ) was more impressive-he finished third, ahead of future world champion Wilhelm Steinitz, and was the only player to win against the eventual tournament winner, Adolf Anderssen.

The ideological rigidity of the third period began to crack, however, with two events: the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president of the United States in 1932 and Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany in 1933.

After the third senate of the highest German military court ( Reichskriegsgericht ) in Berlin condemned to death for alleged espionage the ten Norwegians Sigurd Jakobsen, Gunnar Hellesen, Helge Børseth, Siegmund Brommeland, Peter Andree Hjelmervik, Siegmund Rasmussen, Gunnar Carlsen, Knud Gjerstad, Christian Oftedahl and Frithiof Lund on 24 February 1941, Sven Hedin successfully appealed via Colonel General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst to Adolf Hitler for their reprieve.

He may be the Macarius, bishop of Magnesia, who, at the Synod of the Oak in 403, brought charges against Heraclides, bishop of Ephesus, the friend of John Chrysostom, although Adolf Harnack dated him in the late third century.

It consisted of two battalions from the Savolax Infantry Regiment, the third battalion from the Savolax Jaeger Regiment, the second battalion of the Carelian Jaeger Corps and two 3-pound guns ; the left column was led by Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Ludwig Christiern and consisted of two battalions from the Savolax Infantry Regiment, the first battalion from the Savolax Jaegar Regiment, the first battalion from the Carelian Jaeger Corps, and two 3-pounder guns.

In 1919, the Munich Communist government set up headquarters in the famous beer hall, and in 1920 Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists held their first meeting in the Festsaal, the Festival Room, on the third floor.

The third Adolf is Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Germany.

The creative product of these years, including his famous poems ' Birthday ' ( about Adolf Hitler's last hours ) and ' The Canticle ' ( a poem about the life of Francis of Assisi ), was self-published in his third collection simply entitled Birthday ( 1953 ).

The elder François-Poncet was also a French politician and diplomat, whose diplomatic post as French Ambassador to Germany allowed him to witness the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, as well as the third reich's preparations for war.

In 1544 the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein were divided in three parts ; Frederick's third son Adolf received one of these parts and made his residence at Gottorp.

The " Germany Trilogy " deals with three turning points in 20th century German history: the first movie Hundert Jahre Adolf Hitler (" A Hundred Years of Adolf Hitler ", 1989 ) covers the last hours of Adolf Hitler, the second Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker (" The German Chainsaw-Massacre ", 1990 ), depicts the German reunification of 1990 and shows a group of East-Germans who cross the border to visit West-Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic West German family with chainsaws, and the third Terror 2000 ( 1992 ) focuses on xenophobic violence after the reunification process.

* April 24 – Gustav, Count of Vasaborg, illegitimate son of King Gustavus Adolphus ( Gustav II Adolf ) and his mistress Margareta Slots ( d. 1653 )

Walram's son and successor Adolf would later became King of Germany from 1292 until 1298.

Wiesbaden became the seat of the County of Nassau-Wiesbaden under Count Adolf I ( 1307 – 1370 ), eldest son of Gerlach.

They had one son, Karl Adolf Brandt ( born October 4, 1935 ).

The first Egmond Duke, Arnold, suffered the rebellion of his son Adolf and was imprisoned by the latter in 1465.

In 1884, Maybach's second son, Adolf was born.

* Between 1930 and 1939, the wife and son of Adolf Hitler's half-brother, Alois, lived in Highgate, before moving to the United States.

He was the second son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, sister of Frederick II of Prussia.

* Howard Ronald Stuart-Houston, son of William Patrick Stuart-Houston, nephew of Adolf Hitler.

It eventually transpires each of the 94 targets has a son aged 13, a genetic clone of Adolf Hitler planted by Mengele.

Adolf of Nassau was the reigning count of a small German state, born in about 1255 as the son of Walram II, Count of Nassau and Adelheid of Katzenelnbogen.

Christian inherited Holstein and Schleswig after a short " interregnum " as the eldest son of the sister of late Duke Adolf VIII, Duke of Schleswig ( Southern Jutland ) and Count of Holstein, of the Schauenburg fürst clan, who died 4 December 1459, without children.

The next year ( 21 January 1715 ), Johanna gave birth to a son, called August Adolf after his grandfather ; the child only lived a few hours.

The Third son: Adolf of Altena became Archbishop of Cologne.

His son Adolf I. named himself in 1202 puer comes de marca and became the first Count of Mark.

* 1160-1180 Eberhard I, Count of Berg-Altena, son of Count Adolf IV of Berg

* 1398-1448 Adolph IV, son of Adolf III, also Count of Cleves 1394-1417, Duke of Cleves 1417-1448

In 20th century, his distant direct descendant, Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married the Hereditary Prince Gustaf Adolf, and with Sibylla's son, King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, Sten Sture the younger's blood returned to the Swedish throne.

The current ruling house of Bernadotte similarly claims a Vasa mantle: Charles XIV was an adopted son of Charles XIII ; his son Oscar I married a Vasa descendant Josephine of Leuchtenberg ; their grandson Gustav V married Victoria of Baden who was a great-grandchild of Gustav IV Adolf of the house Holstein-Gottorp.

His eldest son, Gustav, wrote several well-known historical works, namely, Gustav Adolf ( Leipzig, 1869 – 1870 ), a study of the Gustavus Adolphus, the King of Sweden during the Thirty Years War, and Herzog Bernhard von Weimar ( Leipzig, 1885 ), a study of Duke Bernhard, another able Protestant General during the Thirty Years War ; an Historischer Handatlas ( Leipzig, 1885 ), a geographic analysis of historical and territorial changes, and several writings on various events of the Thirty Years ' War.

Peter as duke of Gottorp, Adolf Frederick, bishop of Lübeck, son of Christian August, acted as regent until 1745 ; in 1751 he became king of Sweden.

The eldest living child of a monarch is sometimes not the heir apparent or crown prince, because that position can be held by a descendant of a deceased older child who, by " right of representation ", inherits the same place in the line of succession that would be held by the ancestor if he or she were still living ( e. g., Carl Gustaf, Duke of Jämtland, was de facto Crown Prince of Sweden from 1950 to 1973, as the senior grandson by male primogeniture of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, although the former Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland, was Gustaf VI's eldest living son, and Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, his eldest living dynastic son during those years ).