Goebbels privately lamented " a complete lack of direction in German domestic policy ," but of course he could not directly criticize Hitler or go against his wishes.

Hitler met privately with Hindenburg for over an hour.

Although Heydrich's death was employed for pro-Reich propaganda, Hitler seemed privately to blame Heydrich for his own death, through carelessness:

Hitler remarked privately in later years that his choice of Rosenberg, whom he regarded as weak and lazy, was strategic ; Hitler did not want the temporary leader of the Nazis to become overly popular or hungry for power, because a person with either of those two qualities might not want to cede the party leadership after Hitler's release.

Hitler privately condemned mystical and pseudoreligious interests as " nonsense ".

John Toland noted that Hitler had long been privately aware that Röhm and his SA associates were homosexuals ; although he disapproved of their behaviour, he stated that ' the SA are a band of warriors and not a moral institution.

In July 1941, when Joseph Stalin appealed for a partisan war, Hitler privately stated on July 16: " The Russians have now issued an order for a partisan war behind our front.

This truly enormous building was, according to Albert Speer, inspired by Hadrian's Pantheon, which Hitler visited privately on May 7, 1938.

Under Ribbentrop's guidance, Ōshima met privately with Hitler in the fall of 1935.

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.

This decision, for which Hitler, Rundstedt and Kleist shared responsibility, proved very costly to Germany's war effort in the long term.

Though Hitler was committed to the attack based on political reasons to maintain the aura of German initiative on the Eastern Front he shared many reservations on military grounds with Guderian.

Rosenberg said that these lands had a fundamentally " European " character, resulting from 700 years of history under Swedish, Danish, and German rule, and should therefore provide Germany with " Lebensraum ", an opinion shared by Hitler and other leading Nazis.

During the Holocaust, Hitler united a group of like-minded individuals, Nazis, who shared the common belief that Jews should be exterminated.

The ethos and sometimes the uniform were later copied by others who shared Mussolini's political ideas, including Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, who issued brown shirts to the " Storm Troops " ( Sturmabteilung ) and black uniforms to the " Defense Squad " ( Schutzstaffel, also colloquially known as " Brownshirts ", because they wore black suit-like tunics with brown shirts ), Sir Oswald Mosley in the United Kingdom ( whose British Union of Fascists were also known as the " Blackshirts "), William Dudley Pelley in the United States ( Silver Legion of America or " Silver Shirts "), in Mexico the Camisas Doradas or " Golden Shirts ", Plínio Salgado in Brazil ( whose followers wore green shirts ), and Eoin O ' Duffy in the Irish Free State ( Army Comrades Association or " Blueshirts ").

This opposition to " Jewish finance capitalism ," which they contrasted to " productive capitalism ," was shared by Adolf Hitler himself, who borrowed it from Gottfried Feder.

He also shared Hitler's gift for oratory and manipulation, taking the reins of power from his father behind the scenes the way Hitler did with the German president of his day.

Oehler also had control of Nietzsche ’ s archive during the Nazis ' rule, which he shared with Nietzsche ’ s sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, a Hitler supporter herself, until her death, when he took it over.

A view is not refuted by the fact that it happens to have been shared by Hitler.

Old and New Chancellery shared the large gardens with the underground Führerbunker, where Hitler committed suicide at the end of World War II in 1945.

The moral ban against giving Hitler posthumous victories can inspire conflict about the juncture of personal choice and shared heritage.

The in-depth research through theoretical approaches, wargaming and exercises developed a confidence within the Panzertruppe itself ( and political support by Hitler ) in the armoured formation as the key battlefield formation — although this view was before 1940 not shared by the other Arms of Service.

Milne did not speak out much on the subject of religion, although he used religious terms to explain his decision, while remaining a pacifist, to join the army: " In fighting Hitler ", he wrote, " we are truly fighting the Devil, the Anti-Christ ... Hitler was a crusader against God.

In fact Hitler intended to start an unlimited war, at a much later date than 1939.

In any case, Hitler was too busy elsewhere in Europe to give this much priority.

The ultimate responsibility for this lay with Hitler, as Goebbels well knew, referring in his diary to a " crisis of leadership ," but Goebbels was too much under Hitler ’ s spell ever to challenge his power.

In particular, Ribbentrop acquired the habit of listening carefully to what Hitler was saying, memorizing the Führer's pet ideas, and then later presenting Hitler's ideas as his own – a practice that much impressed Hitler as proving Ribbentrop was an ideal National Socialist diplomat.

This diplomatic success did much to increase Ribbentrop's prestige with Hitler, who called the day the A. G. N. A.

Hitler turned down this idea of Ribbentrop's, but nonetheless during his meeting with Lord Halifax, Ribbentrop spent much of the meeting demanding that Britain sign an alliance with Germany and return the former German colonies.

In the aftermath of Munich, Hitler was in a violently anti-British mood caused in part by his rage over being " cheated " out of the war to " annihilate " Czechoslovakia that he very much wanted to have in 1938, and in part by his realization that Britain would neither ally herself nor stand aside in regard to Germany's ambition to dominate Europe.

This degree of unity within the German government with both the diplomats and the military united in their support of Hitler's anti-Polish policy, which stood in contrast to their views the previous year about destroying Czechoslovakia, very much encouraged Hitler and Ribbentrop with their chosen course of action.

The Sudeten Crisis highlighted German unprepardness to conduct a strategic air war ( although the British and French were in a much weaker position ), and Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe be expanded by five times.

Cook said it was a satirical venue modelled on " those wonderful Berlin cabarets ... which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War "; as a members-only venue it was outside the censorship restrictions.

Samuel Eliot Morison wrote that had Marshall carried out his constitutional duties, assumed the presidency, and made the concessions necessary for the passage of the League of Nations treaty in late 1920, the United States would have been much more involved in European affairs and could have helped prevent the rise of Adolf Hitler, which began in the following year.

The challenge came from dictators, first Benito Mussolini of Italy, then Adolf Hitler of a much more powerful Nazi Germany.

At the time, Adolf Hitler was not particularly impressed by the V-2 ; he pointed out that it was merely an artillery shell with a longer range and much higher cost.

* June 29 – WWII: Hitler, s second-in-command Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring appointed as Hitler, s successor in a written decree. The decree will come into effect should Hitler die in the middle of the war. The decree later became void after Göring tried to assume power while Hitler was very much alive leading to Göring being expelled from the party.

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.

Until the war with the Soviet Union was finished, Hitler was reluctant to have a war with the United States, and insisted upon avoiding " incidents " with the U. S. Navy as much as possible, whereas Raeder was all for a war with the United States.

Neither Raeder or Hitler could quite make up their minds about what was the primary purpose of the German fleet in Norway, which led to much command confusion, and in turn led ultimately to the defeat in the Battle of the Barents Sea.

By 1942, Dönitz had emerged as Hitler's favourite admiral ( whom Hitler liked so much that he eventually named him as his successor ), and that to sack Dönitz would probably lead Hitler to sack him in turn.