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Göring himself took over the Gestapo in 1934 and urged Hitler to extend the agency's authority throughout Germany.
Hitler took advantage of this event, forcing von Hindenburg to sign the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended basic rights and allowed detention without trial.
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.

Hitler and opportunity
On one hand, it was next to impossible for them to overthrow Hitler and the party ; on the other, the Allied demand for an unconditional surrender meant no opportunity for a compromise peace, which left the people no option ( in their eyes ) other than continuing the military struggle.
After meeting Hitler she was offered the opportunity to direct Sieg des Glaubens, an hour-long feature film about the fifth Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg in 1933.
* February 25 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
Hitler saw the Games as an opportunity to promote his government and ideals of racial supremacy, and the official Nazi party paper, the Völkischer Beobachter wrote in the strongest terms that Jews and Black people should not be allowed to participate in the Games.
However, Hitler used his trial as an opportunity to spread his ideas.
This position enabled Stauffenberg to attend Hitler's military conferences, either at the Wolfsschanze in East Prussia or at Berchtesgaden, and would thus give him an opportunity, perhaps the last that would present itself, to kill Hitler with a bomb or a pistol.
On 18 July rumours reached Stauffenberg that the Gestapo had wind of the conspiracy and that he might be arrested at any time – this was apparently not true, but there was a sense that the net was closing in and that the next opportunity to kill Hitler must be taken because there might not be another.
Hitler was hesitant in authorizing Röhm's execution and gave Röhm an opportunity to commit suicide.
In the series Red Skull: Incarnate, it has been revealed that Schmidt actually engineered his meeting with the Führer with himself disguised as a bellhop, tricking his fellow orphan Dieter into trying to kill Hitler and then taking this opportunity to save Hitler's life.
20 May saw Hitler present his Generals with an interim draft for an attack on Czechoslovakia codenamed Operation Green, whereby he insisted that he would not " smash Czechoslovakia " militarily without " provocation, " a particularly favourable opportunity " or " adequate political justification ".
However, Hitler decided to seize the opportunity for propaganda and instructed Albert Speer to ensure that the day was spectacular.
The fire gave Hitler the opportunity to set aside the constitution: for details, see " Reichstag fire ".
Hitler also took this opportunity to order party, army, and government officials ( many of whom were in attendance ) to curtail speeding ( specifically requesting they drive no faster than 50 miles per hour ).
This presented an opportunity that Adolf Hitler was quick to seize once he became chancellor.
Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, who himself had only just escaped death too at the failed Bürgerbräukeller assassination attempt along with Chancellor Adolf Hitler, seized the opportunity and ordered in an enraged telephone conversation with his masquerading " Hauptmann Schämmel " to capture the two British SIS agents for interrogation of British involvement into the Bürgerbräukeller assassination attempt.
Two guests planned to use a visit to the Berghof as an opportunity to assassinate Hitler.
The failure of the Warsaw Uprising provided an opportunity for Hitler to begin the transformation.
Hitler seized upon this opportunity to remove all Party officials loyal to Strasser.
I also ask you to think over the method I have suggested and to give an opportunity on my return to discuss the situation and the posssibilites calmely. With my best wishes. Yours sincerely. GOERDELER Goerdeler had great faith in his idea that if only he could meet with Hitler and explain to him that his leadership was grossly inadequate on military and economic grounds, then Hitler could be persuaded to resign in his favor, thereby ending Nazi Germany through non-violent means.
However, Hitler and Göring also saw this event as an opportunity to dispose of von Blomberg.
" I urged him Hitler to give support Franco under all circumstances, firstly, in order to prevent the further spread of communism in that theater and, secondly, to test my young Luftwaffe at this opportunity in this or that technical respect.
Hitler was tried for high treason and used his trial as an opportunity to spread his message throughout Germany.
Germany, at this time led by Hitler, had lent material support to the Nationalists and were using the war as an opportunity to test out new weapons and tactics.

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