Göring himself took over the Gestapo in 1934 and urged Hitler to extend the agency's authority throughout Germany.

Hitler took charge in Munich, where Röhm was arrested ; he gave Röhm the choice to commit suicide or be shot.

Strasser (" the most able of the leading Nazis " of this period ) took the " socialist " component of National Socialism far more seriously than did Hitler and other members of the Bavarian leadership of the party.

The role of the new ministry, which took over palatial accommodation in the 18th-century Leopold Palace on Wilhelmstrasse, just across from Hitler ’ s offices in the Reich Chancellery, was to centralize Nazi control of all aspects of German cultural and intellectual life, particularly the press, radio and the visual and performing arts.

When Hitler said he approved of what was happening, Goebbels took this as authorization to organise a nationwide pogrom against the Jews.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

As Hitler was displeased with Ribbentrop over his opposition to attacking Yugoslavia, he then broke down and took to his bed for the next couple of days.

Hitler's chief lieutenants, Göring and the SS chief Heinrich Himmler, took this and other comments by Hitler at this time ( most of which were not recorded, but were attested to at postwar trials ) as authority to proceed with a definitive " final solution of the Jewish question " ( Die Endlösung der Judenfrage ) involving the complete removal of the Jews from the German-occupied territories.

During the Night of the Long Knives in 1934, a purge of those whom Hitler deemed threats to his power took place, he had Röhm murdered and used Röhm's homosexuality as a justification to suppress outrage within the ranks of the SA.

After Hitler took power in Germany Jones helped many displaced and endangered Jewish analysts to resettle in England and other countries.

Hitler loved the music of Richard Wagner, and he became a close friend of Winifred Wagner after she took over the festival.

In July 1941, when the U. S Marines took over the occupation of Iceland, Raeder advised Hitler that Germany should declare war on the United States as a reply.

Recognizing Hitler's fondness for Dönitz, Raeder always took Dönitz with him ( despite their mutual dislike ) when he went to lobby Hitler for more naval funding, guessing correctly that Hitler was more likely to say yes to a request for more money for U-boat construction from Dönitz than he was from himself.

Raeder took a great deal of pleasure in criticising Hitler's SS security because he had taken a loaded handgun with him during his lunch with Hitler, but was not searched ; after the lunch, Raeder produced the handgun, and then subjected Hitler's SS bodyguards to a lengthy lecture about their incompetence.

Finally, Raeder was presented as a victim of Hitler with the committee having Raeder say " It was the tragedy of my life that our future took a completely different path ".

After Hitler took power in 1933, the SA became increasingly eager for power and saw themselves as a replacement for the German army, then limited by law to no more than 100, 000 men.

In Munich, Hitler took part in " national thinking " courses organized by the Education and Propaganda Department of the Bavarian Reichswehr under Captain Karl Mayr.

The ministers took this to mean that he would establish a new government under the direction of Hitler, potentially a treasonous act.

While Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 To Be or Not To Be dealt with similar themes ( even including another mistaken-identity Hitler figure ), after the scope of Nazi atrocities became apparent it took nearly twenty years before any other films dared to satirize the era.

Hitler took his survival to be a " divine moment in history ", and commissioned a special decoration to be made.

During rehearsals, Bronski's resemblance to Hitler was called into question, so he took to the streets to prove himself.

Irving also took the view that Hitler often tried to help the Jews of Europe.

" According to Carr, an important advantage was that " if Soviet Russia had eventually to fight Hitler, the Western Powers would already be involved.

The Nazis under Hitler were taking advantage of the more professional management techniques of the military.

In Hitler's reticence, Speer claimed that Hitler's personal secretary, Martin Bormann, took advantage of the vacuum and controlled all information going to Hitler in a bid to gain power for himself.

Although Adolf Hitler in the early 1930s saw the construction of autobahns primarily as a military advantage, construction of the Autobahn system provided employment for the masses affected by the crisis of the Weimar Republic.

Hitler took advantage of the situation by replacing several generals and ministers with people even more loyal to him, taking more effective de facto control of the Wehrmacht which he de jure commanded.

Adolf Hitler took advantage of the situation through the replacement of several generals and ministers with Nazi loyalists, which strengthened his control of the German Armed Forces ( Wehrmacht ).

" Chaplin took advantage of the noted similarity between his on-screen appearance and that of Hitler, such as in his 1940 film The Great Dictator, where he wore the moustache as part of two new characters that parodied Hitler.

A total of nine photographs taken by Hoffman reveal how Adolf Hitler used to rehearse his hand gestures for his public speeches and used to ask Hoffmann to take pictures of these so he could see what he would look like to the German people, as one of Hitler's greatest and most well-known skills was his public speaking which he used to his advantage to emphasise his idea of a " great national revival " of Germany.

Mussolini also mobilized a part of the Italian army on the Austrian border and threatened Hitler with war in the event of a German invasion of Austria to thwart the putsch.

For Prussia, which constituted the bulk of Germany in any event, Hitler reserved these rights for himself and delegated them to Prussian minister-president Hermann Göring.

She arrived in New York City in November 1938, five days before Kristallnacht, or ' night of broken glass '; when news of the event reached the U. S., Riefenstahl maintained that Hitler was innocent.

Raeder contended to Hitler that on one hand an extremely powerful German fleet would deter Britain from intervening if Germany should commit aggression against another European country while on the other hand, a strong German battle fleet could tip the scales in the event of an Anglo-American war, and as such, Britain would ally herself with Germany against the rising power of the United States ( like many Germans of his time, Raeder believed there was a strong possibility of an Anglo-American war ).

Though Hitler failed to achieve his immediate stated goal, the event did give the Nazis their first exposure to national attention and a propaganda victory.

In 1944, Hitler skipped the event and Heinrich Himmler spoke in his place.

Ironically, the Valkyrie plan had been agreed to by Hitler but was now secretly changed to sweep the rest of his regime from power in the event of his death.

In any event, by the beginning of May 1942 it was clear to all that Hitler did not favour a trial.

In February 1938, Seyss-Inquart was appointed Minister of the Interior by Schuschnigg, after Adolf Hitler had threatened Schuschnigg with military actions against Austria in the event of non-compliance.

Even if the absurd atrocity stories were all true, the fact would be almost negligible beside an event that shouts aloud in spite of the journalistic silence: the victory of Hitler signifies the end of the Communist threat, forever.

In the event, Hitler chose to continue with the airlift, perhaps influenced by the Luftwaffes success in the Demyansk Pocket.

In the event he did not, but Richthofen did criticise Göring's reluctance to disagree with Hitler and attacked his willingness to allow him to receive what he considered to be faulty advice.

Even if Hitler were to launch an invasion of France that signally failed, most people would still support Hitler, just as the failure of the Kaiserschlacht had failed to hurt Ludendorff's reputation as it should have, so the Army could do nothing to overthrow Hitler until the unlikely event that his prestige was badly damaged.

Starting with the May Crisis, Bonnet began a campaign of lobbying the United States to become involved in European affairs, asking that Washington inform Prague that in the event of a German-Czechoslovak war the " Czech government would not have the sympathy of the American government if it should not attempt seriously to produce a peaceful solution ... by making concessions to the Sudeten Germans which would satisfy Hitler and Henlein ".

However, Hitler and Göring also saw this event as an opportunity to dispose of von Blomberg.

Bound by their personal oath to Hitler ( the Reichswehreid of 1934, ironically ordered by Blomberg ), many members of the Wehrmacht never acted on their feelings of displeasure regarding this event.

Even if Hitler were to launch an invasion of France that signally failed, most people would still support Hitler, just as the failure of the Kaiserschlacht had failed to hurt Ludendorff's reputation as it should have, so the Army could do nothing to overthrow Hitler until the unlikely event that his prestige was badly damaged.

For tactical reasons Hitler made repeated assurances before the outbreak of the Second World War that Germany would respect Swiss neutrality in the event of a military conflict in Europe.

In the event, Adolf Hitler and cohort, the government of Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 45 ), did not participate in originating such national socialist programs ; thus the politics and ideology of the NSDAP were specifically German adaptations of such.

Hangmen Also Die premiered in New York City on the 23rd or 24th of March 1943, and was then premiered again in Prague, Oklahoma on 27 March, an event which featured Adolf Hitler being hanged in effigy.