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.

The conflict was not, so they thought, with Hitler, but with his lieutenants, Rudolf Hess, Julius Streicher and Hermann Esser, who, they said, were mismanaging the party in Hitler ’ s absence.

" He was horrified by Hitler ’ s characterisation of socialism as " a Jewish creation ", and his assertion that private property would not be expropriated by a Nazi government.

Hitler, however, recognized Goebbels ’ talents.

Where Hitler ’ s style was hoarse and passionate, Goebbels ’ was cool, sarcastic and often humorous: he was a master of biting invective and insinuation, although he could whip himself into a rhetorical frenzy if the occasion demanded.

But his outstanding talents, and the obvious fact that he stood high in Hitler ’ s regard, earned Goebbels the grudging respect of the anti-intellectual brawlers of the Nazi movement, who called him " our little doctor " with a mixture of affection and amusement.

Goebbels, although he continued to show " leftish " tendencies in some of his actions ( such as co-operating with the Communists in supporting the Berlin transport workers ' strike in November 1932 ), was totally loyal to Hitler in his struggle with the Strassers, which culminated in Otto ’ s expulsion from the party in July 1930.

Despite his revolutionary rhetoric, Goebbels ’ most important contribution to the Nazi cause between 1930 and 1933 was as the organizer of successive election campaigns: The Reichstag elections of September 1930, July and November 1932 and March 1933, and Hitler ’ s presidential campaign of March – April 1932.

He proved to be an organizer of genius, choreographing Hitler ’ s dramatic airplane tours of Germany and pioneering the use of radio and cinema for electoral campaigning.

He commandeered the state radio to produce a live broadcast of the torchlight parade that celebrated Hitler ’ s assumption of office.

The role of the new ministry, which took over palatial accommodation in the 18th-century Leopold Palace on Wilhelmstrasse, just across from Hitler ’ s offices in the Reich Chancellery, was to centralize Nazi control of all aspects of German cultural and intellectual life, particularly the press, radio and the visual and performing arts.

But Goebbels always had to bow to Hitler ’ s views.

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.

" 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.

These events were well-timed from the point of view of Goebbels ’ relations with Hitler.

These events damaged Goebbels ’ standing with Hitler, and his zeal in furthering Hitler ’ s anti-Semitic agenda was in part an effort to restore his reputation.

Goebbels, like all the Nazi leaders, could not afford to defy Hitler ’ s will in matters of this kind.

By 1938, they had all become wealthy men, but their wealth was dependent on Hitler ’ s continuing goodwill and willingness to turn a blind eye to their corruption.

Whatever the loss of real power suffered by Goebbels during the middle years of the Nazi regime, he remained one of Hitler ’ s intimates.

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.

The fact that Hitler was fond of Magda Goebbels and the children also gave Goebbels entrée to Hitler ’ s inner circle.

The Goebbels family regularly visited Hitler ’ s Bavarian mountain retreat, the Berghof.

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.

He was one of the main architects of the Holocaust during the early war years, answering only to, and taking orders from, Hitler, Göring, and Himmler in all matters that pertained to the deportation, imprisonment, and extermination of Jews.

Hitler and Hess were both sentenced to five years in Festungshaft ( literally fortress confinement — imprisonment ) for treason.

Hitler was also found guilty and was sentenced to five years imprisonment, although he would only serve nine months.

The reason for their imprisonment was their total rejection of giving the loyalty oath to Hitler and their absolute refusal to participate in any kind of military service.

During his imprisonment, Hitler dictated and then wrote his book Mein Kampf with assistance from his deputy, Rudolf Hess.

Hitler ’ s ideas about eastward expansion that he promulgated in Mein Kampf were greatly influenced during his 1924 imprisonment by his contact with his geopolitical mentor Karl Haushofer.

Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day.

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.

In the 1924 national election, the Munich cultural journal Süddeutsche Monatshefte published a series of articles blaming the SPD and trade unions for Germany's defeat in World War I, which came out during the trial of Adolf Hitler and Ludendorff for high treason following the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.

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.

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.

When the counter-attack failed to stop the Soviet advance, Hitler held Himmler personally liable and accused him of not following orders.

In July, following the Allied landings in France and the huge Soviet advances in Belarus, Hitler finally agreed to grant both of them increased powers.

On 27 August 1939, Chamberlain sent the following letter to Hitler, which was intended to counteract reports Chamberlain had heard from intelligence sources in Berlin that Ribbentrop had convinced Hitler that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact would ensure that Britain would abandon Poland.

Unlike the other factions, Ribbentrop's foreign policy programme was the only one that Hitler allowed to be executed during the years 1939 – 41, though it was more due to the temporary bankruptcy of Hitler's own foreign policy programme that he had laid down in Mein Kampf and Zweites Buch following the failure to achieve an alliance with Britain, than to a genuine change of mind.

Riefenstahl ’ s prominence in the Third Reich, along with her personal association with Adolf Hitler, destroyed her film career following Germany's defeat in World War II, after which she was arrested but released without any charges.

David Low ( cartoonist ) | David Low's cartoon, published in the Evening Standard on 20 September 1939, shows Hitler greeting Stalin, following their joint Invasion of Poland ( 1939 ) | invasion of Poland, with the words, " The scum of the earth, I believe ?".

On 16 July 1940, following Germany's swift and successful occupation of France and the Low Countries and growing impatient with Britain's outright rejection towards his recent peace overtures, Hitler issued Führer Directive No. 16, setting in motion preparations for a landing in Britain.

On 17 June 1936 all police forces throughout Germany were united, following Hitler appointing Himmler as Chief of German Police.

According to the Apogee website the original storyline was the following: After the fall of Hitler, the true powers behind him have drawn into seclusion, planning their next strategy for world domination.

On the following day, 31 July 1944, in view of the likely invasion by German forces, the state sent three letters of protest: one to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to Serafino Mazzolini, a high-ranking diplomat in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Samuel Eliot Morison wrote that had Marshall carried out his constitutional duties, assumed the presidency, and made the concessions necessary for the passage of the League of Nations treaty in late 1920, the United States would have been much more involved in European affairs and could have helped prevent the rise of Adolf Hitler, which began in the following year.

Hindenburg died the following year, after which Hitler declared the office of President vacant and, as " Führer und Reichskanzler ", made himself head of state.

False information about the arrival of troops in the area were reported by double agents " Mutt " and " Jeff ", who had surrendered following their 1941 landing in the Moray Firth, whilst the British media cooperated by broadcasting fake information, such as football scores or wedding announcements, to nonexistent troops .. Fortitude was so successful that by late spring 1944, Hitler had thirteen army divisions in Norway.

More than 1, 500 places were ordered to be renamed by 16 July 1938 following a decree issued by gauleiter and Oberpräsident Erich Koch and initiated by Adolf Hitler.

Most single-party states have been ruled either by parties following an ideology of socialism or international solidarity, such as the Soviet Union in Lenin's era, by parties following some type of nationalist or fascist ideology, such as Germany under Adolf Hitler, or parties that came to power in the wake of independence from colonial rule.

Soon after, Streicher joined the Nazi Party and merged his personal following with Hitler ’ s, almost doubling the party membership.

For this Hans Frank, disgraced and facing death on the gallows for following Hitler, fabricating such a story might be a cunning way of ensuring his place in history as the one man who gave the world the hidden key to the mystery of Hitler's psyche.