On 22 April, largely as a result of Goebbels ' influence, Hitler announced that he would not leave Berlin, but would stay and fight, and if necessary die, in defence of the capital.

Since Hitler was not really interested in obtaining the former colonies, especially if the price was a brake on expansion into Eastern Europe, Ribbentrop was forced to turn down the Anglo-French offer that he had largely brought about.

The British historian Richard Overy wrote that what Hitler thought he was starting in September 1939 was only a local war between Germany and Poland, and his decision to do so was largely because he vastly underestimated the risks of a general war.

In his report to Hitler about Weserübung, Raeder claimed that the success of the operation was " undoubtedly largely " the work of the capital ships, and argued that the campaign in Norway had " amply confirmed the soundness " ( emphasis in the original ) of the construction policies of the 1930s that favoured capital ships over U-boats and carriers.

As a symbol of the German annexation, Chancelor Adolf Hitler celebrated Christmas 1940 at the former bergamt of the Imperial District of Metz, but local people largely rejected the German occupation.

Though the building was hit by bombs several times, it emerged from the war largely unscathed ; rumour at the time had it that the reason the building had fared so well was that Adolf Hitler had planned to use it as his headquarters in London.

But at Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill largely conceded to Stalin's demands to annex the territory which in the Nazi-Soviet Pact he and Hitler had agreed to the Soviet Union controlling, including Kresy, and to carry out Polish population transfers ( 1944 – 1946 ).

Ley's poor background and his experience as head of the largely working-class Ruhr party region meant that he was sympathetic to the socialist wing of the Nazi Party, which Hitler opposed, but he always sided with Hitler in inner party disputes.

The death of Hitler in 1944 might have ended the war and saved as many as 10, 000, 000 lives, largely through the bombing campaign against German cities being discontinued, the concentration camps being liberated earlier, and an earlier end to the Eastern Front fighting against the Soviet Union.

It was largely Papen, believing that Hitler could be controlled once he was in the government, who persuaded Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor in a cabinet not under Nazi Party domination.

While Adolf Hitler expressed confidence in the ability of non-German Axis units to protect German flanks, in reality these units relied on largely obsolete equipment and horse-drawn artillery, while in many cases the unenlightened treatment of enlisted personnel by officers caused poor morale.

By that time, of course, Adolf Hitler had come to power and the KPD had largely been destroyed.

While the RSI remained largely a puppet state, Mussolini maintained close personal relations with Hitler until the end of the war.

During the Third Reich, gliding activities became largely controlled by the state, and for Hitler Youth pilots and their instructors, proficiency in gliding was viewed as the first step towards the Luftwaffe.

In 2002 he published Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich, a work based on newly-available evidence following the opening of the Soviet archives, but which largely confirmed the account of Hitler's death given in Hugh Trevor-Roper's book The Last Days of Hitler ( 1947 ).

However, on 29 September Chamberlain capitulated to Hitler ’ s demands, and the British and French surrendered the largely German populated Czech region of Sudetenland to Germany, with Hitler promising to stop there.

In this interview, Reves contended that penniless Rauschning's main reason for agreeing to write Hitler speaks was the 125, 000 Francs advance, and, referring to preliminary talks with Rauschning in 1939 where he had agreed with the author on what themes and personality traits to apply to Hitler, considered it as largely fabrication.

He became largely reliant on Hitler as political patron and even for financial help.

Stülpnagel also took part in the military opposition's first revolutionary plans, aimed at ousting Hitler and the Nazis, but these plans were largely abandoned after the Munich Agreement.

It has largely supplanted the older term, " Little Hitler ".

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.

In 1933 Freedom of the Press was suppressed in Germany by the Reichstag Fire Decree of President Paul Von Hindenburg, just as Adolf Hitler was coming to power.

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 (), dominated by the employers.

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 ).

Hitler suppressed every instance of programatic change, by refusing to broach the matters after 1925, because the National Socialist Program was “ inviolable ”, hence immutable.

The German nudist movement gained prominence in the 1920s, but was suppressed during the Nazi Gleichschaltung after Adolf Hitler came to power.

Its premiere was planned for Theresienstadt in the autumn of 1944, conducted by Rafael Schachter, but the SS commander noticed similarities between the Emperor of Atlantis and Adolf Hitler and suppressed it.

She also told Hitler she wanted the freedom to act again: " I would not be able to go on living if I had to give up acting ".

One of the most popular, Der Fuehrer's Face ( 1940 ) was a means of relieving the aggression against Hitler by making him a somewhat comical figure while showcasing the freedom America offered.

After the loss of the Bismarck, Hitler started to curtail Raeder's freedom to plan and launch operations on the high seas involving capital ships.

" He was critical of the socialist policies instituted in the Soviet Union by the Communist Party under the leadership of Joseph Stalin at the time, believing that like the fascist leaders Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, they led to the " establishment of concentration camps, the murder and torture of free citizens, and the annihilation of all freedom.

Although the policy of distributionism and local freedom ran counter to the later dictatorship of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, the early years of both leaders appeared favorable toward ending centralized capitalism on the one hand and international communism on the other.

In view of the worsening situation, Hitler gave Manstein operational freedom.

Hitler now gave the President two options: cooperate with Germany, in which case the " entry of German troops would take place in a tolerable manner " and " permit Czechoslovakia a generous life of her own, autonomy and a degree of national freedom ..." or face a scenario in which " resistance would be broken by force of arms, using all means.

During his “ peace speech ” of May 21, Hitler disallowed any intention of engaging in a pre-1914 style naval race with Britain, and stated: “ The German Reich government recognizes of itself the overwhelming importance for existence and thereby the justification of dominance at sea to protect the British Empire, just as, on the other hand, we are determined to do everything necessary in protection of our own continental existence and freedom ”.

After the coup of August 23, 1944 which brought Romania to abandon the alliance with Hitler and put an end to the Fascist-style antisemitic regime, the freedom for Jews was reestablished and Moses Rosen advanced on the steps of the rabbinical hierarchy in Bucharest.

" Replied Citrine: " The alternative is to capitulate to Hitler and lose our freedom.

At the urging of Hitler, Hindenburg responded the next day by issuing an emergency decree " for the Protection of the people and the State ," which stated: " Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press ; on the rights of assembly and association ; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed " suspending key provisions of the German Weimar Constitution.

Some champions of the " preventive war " theory were critical of Hildebrand for using the term Überfall ( fell upon ) to describe Operation Barbarossa because it implied Hitler still had some freedom of choice in 1941.

" We blew up a German train ," Oltmans told the Dutch daily Reformatorisch Dagblad in 2003 " Hitler called me a terrorist, but I saw myself as a freedom fighter.

Wolters noted the politicized atmosphere of his student days, stating, " My academic freedom began, one might say, to the sound of drums: the Hitler Putsch and its consequences to us students, most of whom were in agreement with it.