The economy of Germany during the Hitler era ( 1933 – 1945 ) developed a hothouse prosperity, supported with high government subsidies to those sectors that Hitler favored because they gave Nazi Germany military power and economic autarky, that is, economic independence from the global economy.

Ribbentrop supported his analysis of the situation by only showing Hitler diplomatic dispatches that supported his view that neither Britain or France would honour their commitments to Poland.

" Gustav supported the " Adolf Hitler Endowment Fund of German Industry ", administrated by Bormann, who used it to collect millions of Marks from German businessmen.

According to Joseph Bottum, Pacelli in 1937 " warned A. W. Klieforth, the American consul to Berlin, that Hitler was " an untrustworthy scoundrel and fundamentally wicked person "; Klieforth wrote that Pacelli " did not believe Hitler capable of moderation, and ... fully supported the German bishops in their anti-Nazi stand.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out in July, Hitler and Mussolini supported the fascist and authoritarian Nationalist forces in their civil war against the Soviet-supported Spanish Republic.

In his inaugural address as rector on May 27 he expressed his support to a German revolution, and in an article and a speech to the students from the same year he even supported Adolf Hitler.

Fromm, like many senior officers, knew in general about the military conspiracies against Hitler but neither supported them nor reported them to the Gestapo.

German clergy who opposed Adolf Hitler or supported refugees were strongly persecuted under the Nazi dictatorship.

In 1938 he requested Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to resist the Nazis and supported an international intervention, and offered to return from exile to take over the reins of government in order to repel Hitler.

Although Winifred remained personally faithful to Hitler, she denied that she had ever supported the Nazi party.

At Blumentritt's urgent request, supported by Model, Hitler agreed to ask Rundstedt to resume his post as OB West, which at a meeting on 1 September he agreed to do, saying " My Führer, whatever you order, I shall do to my last breath.

During the second World War, Siemens supported the Hitler regime, contributed to the war effort and participated in the " Nazification " of the economy.

During the September 1939 special House of Commons debate on entering the war, Douglas, who had visited Nazi Germany in 1936 and was disgusted by what he saw, supported going to war against Hitler.

At the same time, Robert Bosch supported the resistance against Adolf Hitler: together with his closest associates, he saved victims of Nazi persecution from deportation.

Winston Churchill claims in his memoirs that had this crisis ended differently Chamberlain may have been called upon as a respected statesman to form a government of his own, but this view is not widely supported, and may be in part due to Chamberlain ’ s position as the first public champion of what later became Churchill ’ s great cause – opposition to the German Nazi government of Adolf Hitler.

After being sworn in on October 14, 1940, Ball stunned his fellow conservatives in his first speech on the Senate floor, calling for the United States to aid Britain as " a barrier between us and whatever designs Hitler and his allies may have on this continent ," Though he was an opponent of the New Deal, he supported FDR's foreign policy, voting in favor of the lend-lease program on March 8, 1941 in spite of letters from his constituents that ran " 25 to 1 against the bill ".

During the German elections of 1932 Mackensen supported Hindenburg over Adolf Hitler, but following the latter's accession to power Mackensen became a visible, if only symbolic, supporter of the Nazi regime.

The CPGB at first supported the war, but after Joseph Stalin signed a treaty with Adolf Hitler, opposed it.

This book supports the view that the German industrialists as a class supported and funded Hitler and put him into power.

On 27 June 1937, Hitler ( in a speech at Wurzburg ) declared he supported Franco to gain control of Spanish ore.

If either the BVP or the Communist Party ( KPD ), who put up Ernst Thalmann in the second round, had supported Marx, he would have become President instead of the elderly von Hindenberg ( who died in 1934, and was succeeded by Hitler ).

Austrian-born Adolf Hitler had a lifelong romantic fascination for the Alps and by the 1930s established a home in the Obersalzberg region outside of Berchtesgaden.

* 1934 – Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.

In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and Adolf Hitler labelled Anthroposophy " Jewish methods.

Adolf Hitler, meanwhile, was almost killed by his own officers, and survived various attempts by other persons and organizations ( such as Operation Foxley, though this plan was never put into practice ).

He was betrayed by Hitler Youth and was hung from the portal of the City Hall by the city's Military Commander Oberst Meyer.

A controversial figure, Thackeray has attracted significant attention by making statements expressing admiration for Hitler as an artist and demagogue, while condemning the Holocaust, inciting violence against Muslims, expressing support for the LTTE, and taking strong stances on the aspects of popular culture, including fervent opposition to the celebration of Valentine's Day.

The armoured and motorized forces were halted, by Hitler, outside the port city of Dunkirk, which was being used to evacuate the Allied forces.

German gains were ultimately limited by Hitler diverting forces from the attack on Stalingrad itself and seeking to pursue a drive to the Caucasus oilfields simultaneously as opposed to subsequently as the original plan had envisaged.

In November 1937 Hitler had indicated that most of the armament projects would be completed by 1943 – 45.

In February 1926 Bamberg served as the venue for the famous Bamberg Conference, convened by Adolf Hitler in his attempt to foster unity and to stifle dissent within the young NSDAP.

Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and other Nazi leaders used it in reference to the worldwide political movement coordinated by the Comintern.

Deeply disturbed by the surge of militaristic nationalism in 1930s world politics, Chaplin found that he could not keep these issues out of his work: " How could I throw myself into feminine whimsy or think of romance or the problems of love when madness was being stirred up by a hideous grotesque, Adolf Hitler?

Media reports also exposed crimes committed by Joseph Stalin and the Soviet regime, such as the gulags, his treaty with Adolf Hitler, and the Great Purges, which had been ignored by the official media.

One of the most notorious propaganda films is Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will ( 1935 ), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by Adolf Hitler.

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.

It was set up, not by the traditional German Army, but by the Nazi Party on the orders of Adolf Hitler on October 18, 1944.

In his work, Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler specifically mentioned Esperanto as an example of a language that would be used by an International Jewish Conspiracy once they achieved world domination.

The production stirred deep controversy by featuring nude performers in Mickey Mouse masks dancing on the ruins of the World Trade Center and a female singer with a painted on Hitler toothbrush moustache performing a straight arm Nazi salute, along with sinister portrayals of American soldiers, Uncle Sam, and Elvis Presley impersonators.

* 1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.

* 1945 – Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.

For Prussia, which constituted the bulk of Germany in any event, Hitler reserved these rights for himself and delegated them to Prussian minister-president Hermann Göring.

As part of the deal in which Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Hermann Göring — future commander of the Luftwaffe and an influential Nazi Party official — was named Interior Minister of Prussia.

Göring himself took over the Gestapo in 1934 and urged Hitler to extend the agency's authority throughout Germany.

Some of the leaders of the Nazi regime ( left to right ): Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels and Rudolf Hess

However, Göring sent a telegram on 23 April, asking permission to take over the leadership of the Reich — an act that Hitler, under the prodding of Martin Bormann, interpreted as a demand to step down or face a coup.

In the testament, completed on 29 April — one day prior to his suicide — Hitler declared both Himmler and Göring to be traitors.

By the mid-1930s, Hitler ’ s most powerful subordinates were Hermann Göring, as head of the Four Year Plan for crash rearmament, and Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and police apparatus.

He ranked along with Joachim von Ribbentrop, Göring, Himmler, and Martin Bormann as the senior Nazi with the most access to Hitler, which in an autocratic regime meant access to power.

With Hitler preoccupied with the war, Himmler focusing on the " final solution to the Jewish question " in eastern Europe, and with Hermann Göring ’ s position declining with the failure of the German Air Force ( Luftwaffe ), Goebbels sensed a power vacuum in domestic policy and moved to fill it.

Goebbels and Speer worked through 1942 to persuade Hitler to dismiss Göring as economic head and allow the domestic economy to be run by a revived Cabinet headed by themselves.

Goebbels instead tried to persuade Hitler to appoint Göring as head of the government.

His proposal had a certain logic, as Göring – despite the failures of the Luftwaffe and his own corruption – was still very popular among the German people, whose morale was waning since Hitler barely appeared in public since the defeat at Stalingrad.

This proposal was increasingly unworkable given Göring ’ s increasing incapacity and, more importantly, Hitler ’ s increasing contempt for him due to his blaming of Göring for Germany's defeats.

Their solution was to seize control of the home front from the indecisive Hitler and the incompetent Göring.

Goebbels promised Hitler that he could raise a million new soldiers by means of a reorganisation of the Army, transferring personnel from the Navy and Luftwaffe, and purging the bloated Reich Ministries, which satraps like Göring had hitherto protected.

Göring was utterly discredited, though Hitler refused to dismiss him until 25 April.

On 22 January 1933, Meissner and Hindenburg's son met Hitler, Göring, and Frick at Ribbentrop's home in Berlin's exclusive Dahlem district.

) As Ribbentrop alienated more and more people in Britain, Göring warned Hitler that Ribbentrop was a " stupid ass ".

Hitler dismissed Göring's concerns: " ut after all, he knows quite a lot of important people in England ", leading Göring to reply " Mein Führer, that may be right, but the bad thing is, they know him ".

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.

At the end of the war, with Berlin surrounded by the Red Army, Göring sent a telegram to Hitler suggesting he take over leadership of the Reich.

Hitler ignored German economic naysayers, and told Hermann Göring that " everyone on all sides was always raising economic misgivings against a threatening war with Russia.