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.

At the end of the war, a substantial amount of Nazi plunder was found stored in Austria, where Hitler had hoped to retreat as the war drew to a close.

* 1983 – The German magazine Der Stern claims that the " Hitler Diaries " had been found in wreckage in East Germany ; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.

Later the same day Hitler received a postcard telling him that he had been accepted for membership of what was at that time the German Workers ' Party.

He had no part in the NSDAP's refounding in 1925, and rejoined only after Hitler had come to power in 1933.

Although neither the Nazi Party nor Hitler himself had a cohesive architectural policy before they came to power in 1933, Nazi writers like Wilhelm Frick and Alfred Rosenberg had already labeled the Bauhaus " un-German " and criticized its modernist styles, deliberately generating public controversy over issues like flat roofs.

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.

Throughout the 1930s, Hitler had ordered rearmament program that cannot be considered limited.

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

Once war had begun, Hitler urged his economic experts to abandon caution and expend all available resources on the war effort.

Pasternak later said, " If, in a bad dream, we had seen all of the horrors in store for us after the war, we should have been sorry not to see Stalin go down together with Hitler: an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.

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.

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.

The Volkssturm had existed, on paper, since approximately 1925, however it was only after Hitler ordered Martin Bormann to recruit six million men for this militia that the group became a physical reality.

Units were mostly composed of members of the Hitler Youth, invalids, the elderly, or men who had previously been considered unfit for military service.

Its most infamous proponent and practitioner was, however, Adolf Hitler who praised and incorporated eugenic ideas in Mein Kampf and emulated Eugenic legislation for the sterilization of " defectives " that had been pioneered in the United States.

One early admirer of the Italian Fascists was Adolf Hitler, who, less than a month after the March, had begun to model himself and the Nazi Party upon Mussolini and the Fascists.

Hitler had no sympathy with the syndicalist tendencies of the NSBO, and in January 1934 a new Law for the Ordering of National Labour effectively suppressed independent working-class factory organisations, even Nazi ones, and put questions of wages and conditions in the hands of the Trustees of Labour ( Treuhänder der Arbeit ), dominated by the employers.

Hitler continued to refer to corporatism in propaganda, but it was not put into place, even though a number of Nazi officials such as Walther Darré, Gottfried Feder, Alfred Rosenburg, and Gregor Strasser were in favour of a neo-medievalist form of corporatism, since corporations had been influential in German history in the medieval era.

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.

However Himmler, who had been appointed Chef der Deutschen Polizei ( Chief of German Police ) by Hitler, controlled the SS, the Gestapo, the Orpo ( uniformed police ) and all investigation units.

In fact Hitler had a narrow range of interests and decision making was diffused among overlapping, feuding power centers ; on some issues he was passive, simply assenting to pressures from whomever had his ear.

Hitler and his associates planned to use Munich as a base for a big march against Germany's Weimar Republic government.

The report, compiled by Frederick L. Coolidge and Daniel L. Segal ( with the assistance of a South Korean psychiatrist considered an expert on Kim Jong-il's behavior ), concluded that the " big six " group of personality disorders shared by dictators Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Saddam Hussein ( sadistic, paranoid, antisocial, narcissistic, schizoid and schizotypal ) were also shared by Kim Jong-il — coinciding primarily with the profile of Saddam Hussein.

* The Jewish songwriter Harold Rome wrote, for the musical " Pins and Needles " in 1937, a gospel song, " Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin ," which made the analogy between Belshazzar and Hitler, saying the former " didn't pay no income taxes :/ The big shot of the Babylon-Jerusalem Axis.

All the same, Hitler took the danger very seriously, and thought all these reconnaissance flights were in preparation for the big raid he was expecting.

As Albert Speer remarked, when it was safe to do so: " The Romans built arches of triumph to celebrate the big victories won by the Roman Empire, while Hitler built them to celebrate victories he had not yet won ".

Seeger later said that he believed the Communist argument at that time that the war was " phony " and that big business merely wanted to use Hitler as a proxy to attack Soviet Russia.

"// So, Mr. President, / We got this one big job to do / That's lick Mr. Hitler and when we're through, / Let no one else ever take his place / To trample down the human race.

Sutton's next three major published books Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and Wall Street and FDR detailed Wall Street's involvement in the Bolshevik Revolution ( in order to destroy Russia as an economic competitor and turn into " a captive market and a technical colony to be exploited by a few high-powered American financiers and the corporations under their control ") as well as its decisive contributions to the rise of Adolf Hitler and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose policies he assessed as being essentially the same, namely " corporate socialism " planned by the big corporations.

In it he rebutted the claim that it was German big business which primarily financed and otherwise promoted the attainment of power by Adolf Hitler.

To me, Reid shines from the ruck of many others who have played big cricket since the Hitler war, in much the same manner that Sir Roy Welensky, and yes Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, because of his courage, stands out from the other so-called statesmen of modern Africa.

Hitler had long been at odds with Röhm and felt increasingly threatened by these plans and in the " Night of the Long Knives " in 1934 killed Röhm and the top SA leaders using their notorious homosexuality as an excuse.

Hitler and the Nazi regime had similar plans for the Poles ; intellectuals were to be killed, and most other Poles were to be only given a fourth-grade education.

It was Ribbentrop's hope that a striking German success in Iraq might lead to Hitler abandoning his plans for Operation Barbarossa, and focusing instead on the struggle with Britain.

Ribbentrop — who was opposed to Hitler's plans lest Germany lose yet another ally — talked Hitler into giving the Hungarians an ultimatum.

Gustav's skepticism toward the Nazis waned when Hitler dropped plans to nationalize business, the Communists gained seats in the November 6 elections, and Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher suggested a planned economy with price controls.

* 1937 – Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring " living space " for the German people.

While no concrete plans were made yet, Hitler told one of his generals in June that the victories in western Europe " finally freed his hands for his important real task: the showdown with Bolshevism ", though German generals told Hitler that occupying Western Russia would create " more of a drain than a relief for Germany's economic situation.

On 5 December 1940, Hitler received military plans for the invasion, and approved them all, with the start scheduled for May 1941.

According to William L. Shirer, Hitler spends the next few days worrying that the Russians will not come to terms in time for the rest of the invasion plans to unfold as scheduled.

** World War II: In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring " living space " for the German people ( recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum ).

How can the man disrupt foreign policy in so criminal a manner and jeopardize all the plans we have made, only to attack Papen ?... What Hitler say about the Baltic and North Sea is really nonsense.

Peace in Finland interrupted the Allied plans, but Hitler became, rightly, convinced that the Allies would try again, and became more convinced of the value of Weserübung.

Since in early July 1940 it was believed by both Hitler and Raeder that Britain would soon surrender, the decision to resume the Z Plan, which meant spending hundreds of millions of Reichsmarks building warships that would take at least five years to finish, reflected plans for an ultimate war with the United States.

Above all, he wanted to ensure that the Navy would have a pre-eminent role in Hitler's Weltreich and armament priorities far beyond what it could hope to achieve in this war " Hitler saw the conquest of the Soviet Union, which was intended to give Germany lebensraum and with it control of enough of Eurasia, to provide sufficient Autarky to challenge the sea powers and carry out Raeder's plans for trans-oceanic expansionism.

In September 1941, Raeder and the U-boat commander Karl Dönitz presented Hitler with plans for all-out U-boat offensive intended to destroy both the United States Navy and Merchant Marine.

Raeder claimed that he was not involved in a conspiracy to commit aggression because Hitler's statements in the Hossbach Memorandum of 1937 and again to senior officers including Raeder for plans for a war with Poland in May and August 1939 together with Raeder's own statements to Hitler about seizing Norway in October – November 1939 were all just mere talk that was not to be taken seriously.

Indiana stows away on their U-boat and follows them to an isolated island in the Aegean Sea where Belloq plans to test the power of the Ark before presenting it to Hitler.

* Operation Spark ( 1940 ) – plans generated in the early 1940s by German anti-Nazis to assassinate Hitler

In Trevor-Roper's opinion, what really mattered about the Hossbach Memorandum was that Hitler clearly expressed an intention to go to war sooner rather than later and it was Hitler's intentions rather than his plans at the time which mattered.

Beck urged the officers to oppose Hitler's plans openly, but Rundstedt, while agreeing about the dangers of war before Germany was fully re-armed, would not support him, but declared himself unwilling to provoke a new crisis between Hitler and the Army.

By July 1940 Hitler was turning his mind to the invasion of the Soviet Union, commissioning General Erich Marcks to prepare preliminary plans.

It is probably correct to surmise, from various writings, that in the beginning the German public knew only a little of the insidious plans Hitler had for a " New European Order ".

According to Mason, by 1939, the “ overheating ” of the German economy caused by rearmament, the failure of various rearmament plans produced by the shortages of skilled workers, industrial unrest caused by the breakdown of German social policies, and the sharp drop in living standards for the German working class forced Hitler into going to war at a time and place not of his choosing.