There were strong parallels between Chaplin and the German dictator, having been born four days apart and raised in similar circumstances.

In a dual performance he also plays the dictator " Adenoid Hynkle ", a parody of Hitler which Maland sees as revealing the " megalomania, narcissism, compulsion to dominate, and disregard for human life " of the German dictator.

Mussolini had no hesitation in attributing the attack to the German dictator: the news reached him at Cesena, where he was examining the plans for a psychiatric hospital.

After allying with Mussolini's Italy in the " Pact of Steel " and signing a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, the German dictator Adolf Hitler started the Second World War on 1 September 1939 attacking Poland and following a military build-up throughout the late 1930s.

Later when Paris was encircled by German troops, Gambetta fled Paris by means of a hot air balloon and he became the virtual dictator of the war effort which was carried on from the rural provinces.

* 1934 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy ; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as " a silly little monkey ".

Early on, Munk was a strong opponent of the German Occupation of Denmark ( 1940 – 1945 ), although he continually opposed the idea of democracy as such, preferring the idea of a " Nordic dictator " who should unite the Nordic countries and keep them neutral during periods of international crisis.

The Abyssinian crisis showed how the League could be influenced by the self-interest of its members ; one of the reasons why the sanctions were not very harsh was that both Britain and France feared the prospect of driving Mussolini and German dictator Adolf Hitler into an alliance.

The West German Olympic Organizing Committee had encouraged an open and friendly atmosphere in the Olympic Village, to help erase memories of the militaristic image of wartime Germany and, specifically, of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which had been exploited by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler for propaganda purposes.

in the 20th century: Germans, the majority are Mennonites with long-reigned dictator Alfredo Stroessner himself of German ancestry, Japanese with Okinawans, Koreans, ethnic Chinese, Arabs, Ukrainians, Southern Europeans, Brazilians, and Argentines are among those who have settled in Paraguay.

* 1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.

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German dictator Adolf Hitler ( right ) and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini ( left ) pursue agendas of territorial expansion for their countries in the 1930s, eventually leading to the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

** Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator ( suicide ) ( b. 1889 )

The bribes also took the form of luxury European vacations, armored Mercedes vehicles for high-ranking government officials and a birthday gift to the then notorious dictator of Turkmenistan, Turkmenbashi ( Saparmurat Niyazov ), including a golden box and 10, 000 copies of his personal manifesto, Ruhnama, translated into German.

In September 1936 Lloyd George met the German dictator Adolf Hitler at the Berghof in Berchtesgaden and discussed foreign policy.

German dictator Adolf Hitler told British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax in 1937 that " one of his favourite films Lives of a Bengal Lancer, which he saw three times.

This was done as a gift to France by the German dictator Adolf Hitler.

" The German ambassador responded by issuing a protest to U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and German dictator Adolf Hitler, who screened the film at Berchtesgaden, was outraged.

In his desire and stated political aim of expanding the " living space " ( Lebensraum ) of the German people by destroying or driving out " lesser-deserving races " in and from other territories dictator Adolf Hitler may have devised an ideological system of self-perpetuating expansionism, in which the expansion of a state's population would require the conquest of more territory which would in turn lead to a further growth in population which would then require even more conquests.

* Heinz Hitler, German dictator Adolf Hitler's favorite nephew died after several days of torture in 1942.

* 1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer ( d. 1894 )

* 1891 – Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer ( d. 1952 )

* 1900 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1981 )

The German Workers ' Party was the precedent to the Nazi Party, and Drexler served as mentor to Adolf Hitler during his early days in politics.

Though Adolf Hitler succeeded in garnering the support of many German industrialists, prominent traditionalists openly and secretly opposed his policies of euthanasia, genocide, and attacks on organized religion, including Claus von Stauffenberg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henning von Tresckow, Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, and the monarchist Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.

* 1938 – Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother

* 1805 – Adolf Reubke, German organ builder ( d. 1875 )

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.

Dollfuss was concerned that with German National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Austrian National Socialists ( DNSAP ) could gain a significant minority in future elections ( according to fascism scholar Stanley G. Payne, should elections have been held in 1933, the DNSAP could have mustered about 25 % of the votes-contemporary TIME analysts suggests a higher support of 50 %, with a 75 % approval rate in the Tyrol region bordering Nazi Germany ).

Heinrich Himmler was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler termed it " the final solution of the Jewish question " ().

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

* 1912 – Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1945 )

* 1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.

Later, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, a survivor of Schill's Freikorps, formed the Lützow Free Corps, which took part in the German War of Liberation.

In 1920, Adolf Hitler had just begun his political career as the leader of the tiny and as-yet-unknown Deutsche Arbeiterpartei / DAP German Workers Party, which was soon renamed the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei / NSDAP ( National Socialist German Workers Party ) or Nazi Party in Munich.

* In 1868, Adolf Kussmaul, a well-known German physician, developed the gastroscope.

In the meantime, Adolf Hitler was reluctantly forced to divert German troops to rescue Mussolini from defeat, and attacked Greece through Yugoslavia and Bulgaria on 6 April 1941.

Among the egoist papers that Tucker followed were the German Der Eigene, edited by Adolf Brand, and The Eagle and The Serpent, issued from London.

During the early morning of 22 June 1941, Adolf Hitler broke the pact by implementing Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Soviet held territories and the Soviet Union that began the war on the Eastern Front.

* 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.

* 1818 – Adolf Anderssen, German chess player ( d. 1879 )

* 1921 – Adolf von Thadden, German politician ( d. 1996 )