The first act of the new government was to dissolve the Reichstag in accordance with Schleicher ′ s " gentlemen ′ s agreement " with Hitler on June 4, 1932.

In August 1932, Hitler reneged on the " gentlemen ′ s agreement " he made with Schleicher that May, and instead of supporting the Papen government demanded the Chancellorship for himself.

Schleicher was willing to accept Hitler ′ s arrangement, but Hindenburg refused, preventing Hitler from receiving the Chancellorship in August 1932.

Due to Hindenburg ′ s opposition, Schleicher was forced to tell Hitler that the most he could give was the Vice-Chancellorship, an offer that Hitler refused.

Schleicher ′ s hope was that the threat of a split within the Nazi Party with Strasser leading his faction out of the party would force Hitler to support the new government.

On December 8, 1932, Strasser resigned as head of the NSDAP ′ s organizational department in protest against Hitler ′ s strategy of opposing every government not headed by himself.

Papen was urging the aged President to appoint Hitler as Chancellor in a coalition with the Nationalist Deutschenationale Volkspartei ( German National People ′ s Party ; DNVP ) who, together with Papen, would supposedly be in a position to moderate Nazi excesses.

Unbeknownst to Schleicher, Papen was holding secret meetings with both Hitler and Hindenburg, who then refused Schleicher ′ s request for emergency powers and another dissolution of the Reichstag.

Knowing of Papen ′ s by now boundless hatred for him, Schleicher knew he had no chance of becoming Defense Minister in a new Papen government, but he felt his chances of becoming the Defense Minister in a Hitler government were very good.

Hitler however misunderstood Hammerstein ′ s remark as implying that Schleicher was about to launch a putsch to keep him out of power.

Schleicher criticized the current Hitler cabinet, while some of Schleicher ′ s followers — such as General Ferdinand von Bredow and Werner von Alvensleben — started passing along lists of a new Hitler Cabinet in which Schleicher would become Vice-Chancellor, Röhm Minister of Defence, Brüning Foreign Minister and Strasser Minister of National Economy.

The falsity of Hitler ′ s claims could be seen in that François-Poncet was not declared persona non grata as normally would happen if an Ambassador were caught being involved in a coup plot against his host government.

In a speech given on January 3, 1935 at the Berlin State Opera, Hitler stated that Schleicher had been shot " in error ", that his murder had been ordered on the basis of false information, and that Schleicher ′ s name was to be restored to the honor roll of his regiment.

David Redles attacked Hänel ′ s method which consisted of: ' pointing out similarities in phrasing of quotations from other individuals in Rauschning's other books ... and those attributed to Hitler in Voice of Destruction Hitler Speaks.

The Norwegians were unable to reach the crash sites in time, and the survivors eventually came into the hands of the Gestapo, who tortured them during interrogation ( not sparing the badly injured ) and later had them executed under Adolf Hitler ′ s Commando Order.

Dieppe was evacuated by the Germans before Hitler ′ s order had been received and, consequently, the Canadians took it with little trouble and with the port installations largely intact.

However, as the German army closed in on complete victory, Blumentritt and von Rundstedt ignored conflicting orders from the OKH to advance on the British and French position at Dunkirk, and instead followed Adolf Hitler ′ s order to halt for three days, consequently allowing the evacuation of the British Forces.

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.

Hitler ’ s imprisonment following the failed November 1923 " Beer Hall Putsch " left the party temporarily leaderless, and when the 27-year-old Goebbels joined the party in late 1924 the most important influence on his political development was Gregor Strasser, who became Nazi organizer in northern Germany in March 1924.

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.

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 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.

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.

On 21 May 1935 Hitler gave a speech in which he proclaimed that German rearmament offered no threat to world peace.

Attlee responded the next day in the debate on increased air estimates that Hitler's speech contained unfavourable references to the Soviet Union but that " We see here a chance to call a halt in the armaments race ... We do not think that our answer to Herr Hitler should be just rearmament.

There is even a theory that Hitler ordered a research journey for such an opening in Antarctica, based on a speech of Admiral Dönitz in front of a German submarine in 1944, when he claimed " The German submarine fleet is proud of having built an invisible fortification for the Führer, anywhere in the world.

In 1939, in a speech to the Reichstag, Hitler had said:

As a result of the " guarantee " of Poland, Hitler began to speak with increasing frequency of a British " encirclement " policy, and used the “ encirclement ” policy as the excuse for denouncing in a speech before the Reichstag on 28 April 1939 the A. G. N. A and the Non-Aggression Pact with Poland.

At the climax, Adolf Hitler is ready to deliver a critically important speech, but begins chanting the marching song.

* January 30 – Hitler gives a speech before the Reichstag calling for an " export battle " to increase German foreign exchange holdings.

* April 28 – In a speech before the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler renounces the Anglo-German Naval Agreement and the German – Polish Non-Aggression Pact.

** Adolf Hitler makes his first public political speech, in Austria.

* April 5 – Neville Chamberlain, in what proves to be a tragic misjudgment, declares in a major public speech that Hitler has " missed the bus ".

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.

" In the same speech, Peres compared Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his call to " wipe Israel off the map " to the genocidal threats to European Jewry made by Adolf Hitler in the years prior to the Holocaust.

In a speech given on Heroes ' Day on 12 March 1939, Raeder praised Hitler: "... for the clear and unmerciful declaration of war against Bolshevism and International Jewry is referring to the Kristallnacht pogrom here, whose drive for destruction of peoples we have felt quite enough in our racial body ".

This in turn led him to be questioned by Maxwell Fyfe about his speech on Heroes ' Day on 12 March 1939 praising Hitler "... for the clear and unmerciful declaration of war against Bolshevism and International Jewry, whose drive for destruction of peoples we have felt quite enough in our racial body ".

Raeder accused Dönitz and Speer of failing the Navy by mismanaging U-boat production, and said that Dönitz's National Socialism had blinded him to reality, writing: " His speech to the Hitler Youth, which was ridiculed in all circles, earned him the title of " Hitler-boy " Dönitz ".

The Free Democrat Erich Mende in a speech before the Bundestag noted that Raeder had accepted bribes from Hitler, and that alone should had disqualified Raeder from being presented as a hero to the next generation of Germans.

After giving his first speech for the Party on October 16 in the Hofbräukeller, Hitler quickly rose up to become a leading figure in the DAP.

Hitler, along with a large detachment of SA, marched on the Bürgerbräukeller, a Munich beer hall where von Kahr was making a speech in front of 3, 000 people.

Hitler ended his speech with: " Outside are Kahr, Lossow and Seisser.

However, Hitler continued to deliver his 8 November speech through 1943.

As an anecdote, one of the more notable attacks both on the concept of lebensraum, and on Hitler, was made in a speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in which he stated that " There is not enough lebensraum on this planet for both God and Hitler.

* Peter Sellers appeared on Michael Parkinson's BBC1 chat show Parkinson in a Nazi helmet reciting the entire " Hitler was a better painter than Churchill " speech.

" In a speech on 13 July Hitler alluded to Röhm's homosexuality and explained the purge as chiefly defence against treason.