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.

Despite causing severe damage to the Royal Air Force's infrastructure and British cities during the subsequent Blitz, it failed to achieve the air superiority Hitler demanded for Operation Sea Lion.

On 18 March 1941, Raeder asked Hitler to end the rules that U-boats could not fire on American warships unless fired upon first, and instead demanded a policy that would allow the Kriegsmarine to sink all American warships on sight.

On 9 July 1941, during a meeting with Hitler, Raeder said he had enough of the Americans, and after this latest act of American " aggression " as he called the occupation of Iceland, demanded that Germany declare war on the United States.

Hitler, accompanied by Rudolf Hess, Adolf Lenk and Ulrich Graf, ordered the triumvirate of von Kahr, von Seisser, and von Lossow into an adjoining room at gunpoint and demanded they support the putsch.

At first, Hitler demanded then president Edvard Beneš hand over that region of the country, but Beneš refused.

Nevertheless, since Adolf Hitler demanded full unconditional collaboration, he pressured the Vichy government to obtain the dismissal and recall of Weygand in November 1941.

On 28 May, Hitler called a meeting of his service chiefs where he ordered an acceleration of U-boat construction and brought forward the construction of his first two battleships, Bismarck and Tirpitz, to spring 1940, and demanded that the increase in the firepower of the pocket battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau be accelerated.

Rundstedt agreed that Blomberg had disgraced himself and demanded that he be court-martialled, which Hitler refused.

" As dictator of Germany, Hitler attempted to unite all German-speaking people, just as Poetsch's lectures had demanded, and persecuted Slavs, Jews, Gypsies, and other minorities, eventually attempting to exterminate them in the " Final Solution ".

Hitler summoned Schuschnigg to Berchtesgaden in February and demanded, with the threat of military action, that he release imprisoned Austrian Nazis and allow them to participate in the government.

Hitler demanded that the plebiscite be canceled.

Hitler now demanded that the Sudetenland should be absorbed into Germany, convincing Chamberlain that refusal meant war.

Later that month, he was a main advocate for rejecting the Hitler administration's Enabling Act, calling it the " most monstrous resolution ever demanded of a parliament.

Lyons proclaimed Marble Hill as a part of the Bronx and demanded the subservience of its residents to the Bronx, saying it was “ the Bronx Sudetenland ”, referencing Hitler ’ s 1938 annexation of a region of Czechoslovakia.

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.

On August 5, 1932, Hitler and Schleicher held a secret meeting, in which Hitler demanded that he become Chancellor and the Ministries of the Interior and Justice go to Nazis ; Schleicher could remain as Defence Minister.

On the same day, Hitler met with Chamberlain and demanded the swift takeover of the Sudetenland by the Third Reich under threat of war.

As documented in the Hossbach Memorandum, Hitler had been dissatisfied with these two highest ranking military officials and regarded them as too hesitant towards the war preparations he demanded.

Hitler demanded to see plans for the invasion of Switzerland.

Jeff Sharlet and Andrea Mitchell have described Fellowship leader Doug Coe as preaching a leadership model and a personal commitment to Jesus Christ comparable to the blind devotion that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot demanded from their followers.

There it remained, a monument to the defeat of the Kaiser ’ s Germany, until 22 June 1940, when swastika-bedecked German staff cars bearing Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop and others swept into the Clairiere and, in that same carriage, demanded and received the surrender armistice from France.

The order was issued to the commander of German 6th SS Panzer Army, Sepp Dietrich, by Adolf Hitler, who claimed that the troops, and, more importantly, the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, " did not fight as the situation demanded.

According to Albert Speer in his book Spandau: The Secret Diaries, Hitler expressed admiration for Adenauer, noting his civic projects, the building of a road circling the city as a bypass, and a " green belt " of parks.

In 1934, Hitler himself had spoken of an inescapable battle against both Pan-Slavism and Neo-Slavism, the victory in which would lead to " permanent mastery of the world ", though he stated that they would " walk part of the road with the Russians, if that will help us.

" Thereafter, Hitler spoke of an inescapable battle against " pan-Slav ideals ", in which victory would lead to " permanent mastery of the world ", though he said they would " walk part of the road with the Russians, if that will help us.

Trotsky claimed that the Third Period policies of the Comintern had contributed to the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, and that its turn to a popular front policy ( aiming to unite all ostensibly anti-fascist forces ) sowed illusions in reformism and pacifism and " clear the road for a fascist overturn ".

" Chamberlain's worst error ," says McDonough, " was to believe that he could march Hitler on the yellow brick road to peace when in reality Hitler was marching very firmly on the road to war.

These include an ancient dragon who falls in love with a tyrannosaurus, a futuristic warrior robot left behind by aliens because it is malfunctioning and has now taken up pottery, a lost crusader who now works in a gas station located somewhere on the timeless road, occasionally asking his customers about the " current " status of the Holy Land, an ancient Sumerian who buries artifacts later to be found by himself as archaeologist, along with the brief appearances of pulp heroes such as Doc Savage and John Sunlight as well as real historical figures, including Jack the Ripper, Marquis de Sade and an angry Adolf Hitler ( who is furiously searching for the place " where he won ").

In July 1934, just after Adolf Hitler had suppressed the SA, he visited Bavaria and described his experiences in Cesta do Mníchova ( The road to Munich ).

Rest during the German invasion on the road to Františkovy Lázně | Franzensbad: Henlein in uniform sitting between Hitler and General Wilhelm Keitel ( right ), 3 October 1938

Wehler wrote :" Does our understanding of National Socialist policies really depend on whether Hitler had only one testicle ?... Perhaps the Führer had three, which made things difficult for him, who knows ?... Even if Hitler could be regarded irrefutably as a sado-masochist, which scientific interest does that further ?... Does the " Final Solution of the Jewish Question " thus become more easily understandable or the " twisted road to Auschwitz " become the one-way street of a psychopath in power?

" On the other hand, against the evil of Germany's collapse stood the alternative of giving Adolf Hitler, under a Four-Power accord, carte blanche to break out of his dangerous isolation by clearing himself a road through Czechoslovakia to the oil and wheat fields of Rumania, thus putting him in possession of the wherewithal to risk a war of long duration with the Soviet Union.

In a 1980 article, Wehler mocked those who sought to explain Nazi Germany as due to some defect in Adolf Hitler's personality by commenting :" Does our understanding of National Socialist policies really depend on whether Hitler had only one testicle ?... Perhaps the Führer had three, which made things difficult for him-who knows ?... Even if Hitler could be regarded irrefutably as a sado-masochist, which scientific interest does that further ?... Does the " Final Solution of the Jewish Question " thus become more easily understandable or the " twisted road to Auschwitz " become the one-way street of a psychopath in power ?".

Trotsky claimed that the Third Period policies of the Comintern had contributed to the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, and that its turn to a popular front policy ( aiming to unite all ostensibly anti-fascist forces ) sowed illusions in reformism and pacifism and " clear the road for a fascist overturn ".

In the 1970s, advocates of the intentionalist school of thought were known as " the straight road to Auschwitz " camp or as the " programmeists ", because they insisted that Hitler was fulfilling a programme.

As an example, Dawidowicz notes that Hitler delayed railcars providing supplies to front line troops in the Soviet Union so that Jews could be deported by rail from the USSR to death camps.

Hitler decided to sign the armistice in the same rail carriage where the Germans had signed the 1918 armistice.

Hitler and Stalin, who may only move by rail, are also shown as counters in the game.

Additional criticism of functionalism points out that Hitler and other Nazi leaders delayed railcars providing supplies to front line troops in the Soviet Union so that Jews could be deported by rail from the USSR to death camps thus demonstrating the pursuit of genocidal policies over pragmatic wartime actions.

Broszat argued that the Holocaust began “ bit by bit ” as German officials stumbled into genocide Broszat argued that Hitler provided the goal to the functionaries of the German state “ to get rid of the Jews and above all to make the territory of the Reich judenfrei, i. e. clear of the Jews ” without providing any guidelines as to how this was to be done German officials began a massive program of ethnic cleansing and mass expulsions in Poland and elsewhere without “ clear aims … with respect to the subsequent fate of the deportees ” Following the abandonment of the Madagascar Plan, after June 1941 German officials hoped that “… the spaces to be occupied in the Soviet Union would … offer a possibility for getting rid of the Jews of Germany and of the allied and occupied countries ” Broszat maintained that when faced with the stalemate on the Eastern Front, the overwhelming of the European rail system by successive deportations and the self-imposed " problem " of three million Polish Jews the Germans had forced into ghettoes between 1939 and 1941, local German officials in Poland started in the fall of 1941 " improvised " killing schemes as the " simplest " solution to the " Jewish Question ".