After an intense argument with General Heinz Guderian, who insisted on a change of command of the Army Group Vistula, Hitler assigned General Walther Wenck to Himmler's headquarters to take over command of a limited counter-offensive ; Hitler then observed that it was not possible for him to move the troops needed for Guderian's planned double pincer attack from neighbouring regions.

Believing that Hitler needed Russian neutrality in order to defeat Britain, Stalin prepared a strong set of initial demands, which Hitler had no intention of accepting.

As early as 1925, Hitler suggested in Mein Kampf that he would invade the Soviet Union, asserting that the German people needed Lebensraum (" living space ", i. e. land and raw materials ) and that these should be sought in the East.

Hitler was sufficiently impressed by the enthusiasm of its developers, and needed a " wonder weapon " to maintain German morale, so authorized its deployment in large numbers.

As such, Hitler argued what was needed was a strong Army to support expansion into Eastern Europe, and building a strong Navy was a waste of money.

Raeder himself was personally pleased by the sinking of the Bismarck, feeling this had won the Kriegsmarine some much needed glory on the high seas and was consistent with his goal of " full engagement " where the Kriegsmarine capital ships were to sent into action until they all were sunk to win his service glory, but Hitler was more than annoyed at the loss of the Bismarck.

Raeder also warned Hitler that Germany needed to take over the French colonies in West Africa, and warned that it would " most dangerous " if the United States should gain influence in French Africa.

Hitler said he needed more time to think about what Raeder had suggested.

Politically speaking, the SA were more radical than the SS, with its leaders arguing the Nazi revolution had not ended when Hitler achieved power, but rather needed to implement socialism in Germany ( see Strasserism ).

Hitler badly needed to increase the size of his navy, but every ship was scuttled at dock before they could be taken.

Goebbels thus needed a chance to prove himself in the eyes of Hitler.

When Hogan needed a strictly audio impression of Adolf Hitler, the men generally agreed that Kinchloe was the better choice for the job over Technical Sergeant Carter.

This could hardly be blamed on Rundstedt, but he was the commander and Hitler needed a scapegoat.

With the passing of the Enabling Act the Centre Party had in fact acquiesced in its own demise, as it had played the part Hitler had assigned to it and was no longer needed.

When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union it continued to attack Randolph's proposed March, but now on the ground that it undermined the unity needed to win the war.

This success not only made Eckart wealthy, it gave him the social contacts needed to introduce Hitler to dozens of important German citizens.

Hitler — intent on war against Poland — needed to eliminate Czechoslovakia first.

Goerdeler, together with Dr. Schacht, General Beck, Hassell, and the economist Rudolf Brinkmann, were described by Hitler as " the overbred intellectual circles " who were trying to block him from fulfilling his mission by their appeals to caution, and but for the fact that he needed their skills " otherwise, perhaps we could someday exterminate them or do something of this kind to them ".

Hitler even lent him 80, 000 Reichsmarks, which he needed since the family wealth was all his wife's.

After the conference, three of the attendees, Blomberg, Fritsch and Neurath, all argued that the foreign policy Hitler had outlined was too risky — Germany needed more time to re-arm.

Admiral Raeder argued to Hitler that Germany needed naval parity with France as a minimum goal, whereas Hitler from April 1933 onwards, expressed a desire for a Reichsmarine of 33. 3 % of the total tonnage of the Royal Navy.

Hitler, for his part, found Ribbentrop increasingly tiresome and sought to avoid him.

Raeder first raised the subject of invading Norway during a meeting with Hitler on 10 October 1939, during which he argued that naval bases in Norway would allow the Kriegsmarine to avoid the North Sea, and thus strangle Britain better.

More than a year later, on 3 August 1921, Hitler redefined the group as the " Gymnastic and Sports Division " of the party ( Turn-und Sportabteilung ), perhaps to avoid trouble with the government.

The denial of referendums in other cases was designed to avoid the kind of populism that allowed the rise of Hitler.

Some thought the plotters wanted to kill Hitler in order to end the war and to avoid the loss of their privileges as professional officers and members of the nobility.

Hitler and National Socialism had turned " wrong-doing " into a system, something which the resistance should avoid.

One by one, Hitler successfully repudiated the terms the Versailles treaty, using skilful diplomacy to avoid triggering war.

Smith sentimentally and poignantly sings the opening lines of " White Cliffs of Dover ", and " We'll Meet Again ", and then ( to avoid lowering the tone ) has to interrupt Jones when he begins to sing, " Hitler has only got one ..."

The Sudeten Germans were under instruction from Hitler to avoid a compromise, and after the SdP held demonstrations that provoked police action

In September, Chamberlain flew to Berchtesgaden to negotiate directly with Hitler, hoping to avoid war.

However, Hitler vetoed any such step, out of a general Nazi policy at the time to base the occupation of Denmark on a kind of accommodation with the Danish Government, and avoid outright confrontations with the Danes.

The long meetings and discussions at Kreisau developed an image of a society to be based on Christian values and on small communities, so as to avoid a manipulation of the whole of society like the one Hitler had achieved.

Similar in many ways to the Leipzig Meuten, they consisted of young people, mainly between the ages of 14 and 17, who had evaded the Hitler Youth by leaving school ( which was allowed at 14 ) and were also young enough to avoid military conscription, which was only compulsory from the age of 17 onwards.

On April 30, Adolf Hitler, with his wife of one day, Eva Braun, committed suicide in his bunker to avoid capture by Soviet troops.

As it was, Fest was expelled from his school, and then went to a Catholic boarding school in Freiburg im Breisgau in Baden: here he was able to avoid Hitler Youth service until he was 18.

While the need for a joint headquarters to coordinate the work of all the services was desirable in theory, for example to determine industrial and manpower priorities and avoid duplication of effort, OKW was increasingly used as an alternate Army planning staff by Hitler.

He claimed that he had protested about the decision, made by Hitler, according to him, but he was " without power or authority to countermand or avoid the order ".

Hitler ordered Blomberg to annul the marriage in order to avoid a scandal and to preserve the integrity of the army.

To avoid having the SS split into two separate entities, one based in Northern Germany and the other in Bavaria, Adolf Hitler promoted Daluege to the new rank of Obergruppenführer making him equal in rank to Himmler.

In the run up to the war, Halder — in an attempt to avoid what they were certain would be a catastrophic war for Germany — was the main actor in a plot with several other generals in the Wehrmacht and Abwehr to remove Hitler from power.

Within weeks of the passage of the Enabling Act, the Hitler government banned the SPD, while the other German political parties chose to dissolve to avoid prosecution, making the Nazi party the only legal political party in Germany.

Göring then informed Hitler ( who had also been a witness at the wedding ), and Hitler ordered Blomberg to annul the marriage in order to avoid a scandal and to preserve the integrity of the army.

In order to avoid another European conflict, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain attempted to appease German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who was expanding his country's territory across Central Europe.