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Although Adolf Hitler discussed with Ferdinand Porsche the possibility of military application of the Volkswagen as early as April 1934, it was not until January 1938, that high-ranking Third Reich army officials formally approached Porsche about designing an inexpensive, light-weight military transport vehicle that could be operated reliably both on-and off-road in even the most extreme conditions, suggesting that the Beetle could provide the basis for such a vehicle.
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Although Hay claimed " never to have even heard " of the earlier gay liberation struggle in Germany — by the people around Adolf Brand, Magnus Hirschfeld and Leontine Sagan — he is known to have talked about it with German émigrés in America, including Rudi Gernreich.
Although the book is unabashedly sentimental, it also depicts the sweeping social changes that Chips experiences throughout his life: he begins his tenure at Brookfield in 1870, as the Franco-Prussian War is breaking out and lies on his deathbed shortly after Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
Although too weak to stand up unaided, Morphy insisted on going ahead with a match against the visiting German master Adolf Anderssen, considered by many to be Europe's leading player.
Although the Duchy of Nassau was annexed by Prussia in 1866, Duke Adolf maintained and renewed the Order when he became Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
Although retained by some prominent figures who were young men in the Victorian period ( like Sigmund Freud ), most men who retained facial hair during the 1920s and 1930s limited themselves to a moustache or a goatee ( such as with Marcel Proust, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin ).
Although his full name was Prince Christian Wilhelm Ferdinand Adolf Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, until his accession in Greece, he was known as Prince Vilhelm ( William ), the namesake of his paternal and maternal grandfathers, Frederick William, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Prince William of Hesse-Kassel.
Although much of the town resisted early National Socialism, and the town leaders had refused Adolf Hitler a chance to address the community in 1932, they were not able to escape the reach of the Nazis entirely.
Although Adolf Hitler in the early 1930s saw the construction of autobahns primarily as a military advantage, construction of the Autobahn system provided employment for the masses affected by the crisis of the Weimar Republic.
Although he was a national conservative and initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler, he became one of the founders of the Confessional Church, which opposed the nazification of German Protestant churches.
Although Sorge considered Friedrich Adolf Sorge, an associate of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, to be his grandfather, he was in fact his great-uncle.
Although Adolf Hitler has often been referred to as a " corporal " in English, his actual rank, Gefreiter, was more equivalent to senior private ; he was never a corporal ( Unteroffizier ).
Although most Swedish officers were skeptical about their chances in fighting the larger and more experienced Russian army, Gustav Adolf had an unrealistic view of Sweden's ability to defend itself against Russia.
Although the policy of distributionism and local freedom ran counter to the later dictatorship of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, the early years of both leaders appeared favorable toward ending centralized capitalism on the one hand and international communism on the other.
Although Adolf Hitler never endorsed the plan, he issued an order on April 24 for the evacuation of remaining government personnel from Berlin to the Redoubt ; he made it clear that he would not leave Berlin himself, even if it fell to the Soviets, as it did on May 2.
Although it did not identify him by name, it contained references to ' an insane and arrogant prophet ", which scholars such as Bokenkotter, Vidmar, Rhodes and McGonigle have interpreted as referring to Adolf Hitler.
Although anti-Semitic and in favour of a totalitarian state, Niekisch rejected Adolf Hitler as he felt he lacked any real socialism, and instead looked to Joseph Stalin and the industrial development of the Soviet Union as his model for the Führer Principle.
Although disputed, there is a story that Adolf Hitler and Tandey encountered each other after the battle at Marcoing ( in October 1914, whilst Tandey was serving with the Green Howards ).
Although an ardent anti-semite himself he was suspicious of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement, which he saw as a threat to Britain.
Although Schmeling rebounded professionally from the loss to Louis ( winning the European Heavyweight Title in 1939 by knocking out Adolf Heuser in the 1st round ), the Nazi regime would cease promoting him as a national hero.
Although some elements of the German military were inclined to do so, they were ultimately overruled by Adolf Hitler and his political organization, whose racial prejudice against the Ukrainians precluded cooperation.
Although the campaign was militarily successful at first, it was fatally undermined by the Franco-British appeasement of Adolf Hitler in the Munich Agreement.
Although this opening was originally played by Cavallotti against Salvioli at the Milan tournament of 1881, it takes its name from Adolf Albin, who played it against Lasker in New York 1893.
Although Roosevelt was under some domestic pressure to concentrate the United States war effort on Japan because of its attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, Adolf Hitler's declaration of war on the United States on December 11, 1941 made this decision more politically acceptable to opinion in the United States than it would otherwise have been.
Although the Roosevelt administration wanted to enter the war against Germany, the vast majority of Americans were too isolationist and disillusioned at their experience in World War I to seek involvement in the World War II, at least until the U. S. was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941.
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Although neither the Nazi Party nor Hitler himself had a cohesive architectural policy before they came to power in 1933, Nazi writers like Wilhelm Frick and Alfred Rosenberg had already labeled the Bauhaus " un-German " and criticized its modernist styles, deliberately generating public controversy over issues like flat roofs.
" Although deliberately framed as if it were a law of nature or of mathematics, its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about the Holocaust ," Godwin has written.
Although technically subordinate to Frick, he answered only to Hitler.
Although Heydrich's death was employed for pro-Reich propaganda, Hitler seemed privately to blame Heydrich for his own death, through carelessness:
Although Hitler commented on 22 September 1943, that " It is a great load off our minds that we have dispensed with the radio guiding-beam ; now no opening remains for the British to interfere technically with the missile in flight ", about 20 % of the operational V-2 launches were beam-guided.
Although he was opposing Hitler, the deteriorating political stability of the Weimar Republic let him play an important role in the Nazi Party's rise to power.
Although the lyrics were not used in the film, British audiences of the time fully understood the subtextual humour of " Hitler Has Only Got One Ball " being sung by prisoners of war.
Although Rommel felt he had to, as he put it, " come to the rescue of Germany ", he thought killing Hitler would make him a martyr.
Although Ferdinand Porsche was about to pay a settlement to Tatra, he was stopped by Hitler who said he would " solve his problem ".
Although the treaty is known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, it was Stalin and Hitler, and not Molotov and Ribbentrop, who decided the content of the treaty.
Although determined to curb the power of the SA, Hitler put off doing away with his long-time comrade to the very end.
Although suspicious of Stalin, even Churchill believed that, because of Stalin's strong promises and admission of guilt over Poland, that Stalin might keep his word regarding Poland, remarking " Poor Neville Chamberlain believed he could trust Hitler.
Although Winifred remained personally faithful to Hitler, she denied that she had ever supported the Nazi party.
Although Rundstedt wished to resume his retirement, he was persuaded by Hitler to stay in France and set up headquarters at Saint-Germain-en-Laye about outside Paris.
Although Rundstedt resisted Hitler's interference in the Russian campaign, and was dismissed for doing so, thereafter he refused to confront Hitler even on strictly military matters, let alone on political ones.
When reviewing " Hitler: A Study in Tyranny " in The Times in 1991, John Campbell wrote " Although written so soon after the end of the war and despite a steady flow of fresh evidence and reinterpretation, it has not been surpassed in nearly 40 years: an astonishing achievement.
Although he at first refused to collaborate with the Soviets, after the attempted assassination of Hitler on 20 July 1944, Paulus became a vocal critic of the Nazi regime while in Soviet captivity, joining the Russian-sponsored National Committee for a Free Germany and appealing to Germans to surrender.
Although democracy was not in sight, at least Hitler ’ s policies promised more work and equality for many workers and labourers, as well as further socialist reforms and political stability.
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