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.

At the end of the war, a substantial amount of Nazi plunder was found stored in Austria, where Hitler had hoped to retreat as the war drew to a close.

Louis de Wohl worked as an astrologer for the British intelligence agency MI5, after it was claimed that Hitler used astrology to time his actions.

In fact de Wohl's predictions were so inaccurate that he was soon labelled a " complete charlatan " and it was later shown that Hitler considered astrology to be " complete nonsense ".

The German Workers ' Party was the precedent to the Nazi Party, and Drexler served as mentor to Adolf Hitler during his early days in politics.

It was My Political Awakening and, according to Hitler in his book Mein Kampf, it reflected the ideals he already believed in.

Later the same day Hitler received a postcard telling him that he had been accepted for membership of what was at that time the German Workers ' Party.

Though Hitler was originally against the idea ( but later convinced ), Drexler changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP ) early in 1920.

By 1921, Hitler was rapidly becoming the undisputed leader of the Party.

In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and Adolf Hitler labelled Anthroposophy " Jewish methods.

Adolf Hitler, meanwhile, was almost killed by his own officers, and survived various attempts by other persons and organizations ( such as Operation Foxley, though this plan was never put into practice ).

He was betrayed by Hitler Youth and was hung from the portal of the City Hall by the city's Military Commander Oberst Meyer.

But By the Way was one of the few features kept continuously running in the often seriously reduced Daily Express throughout World War II, when Morton's lampooning of Hitler, including the British invention of bracerot to make the Nazi's trousers fall down at inopportune moments, was regarded as valuable for morale.

Hitler was a strong supporter of this new strategy.

The armoured and motorized forces were halted, by Hitler, outside the port city of Dunkirk, which was being used to evacuate the Allied forces.

Hitler proclaimed to rely on surprise alone was " criminal ", and that " we have to prepare for a long war along with surprise attack ".

During the winter of 1939 – 40, Hitler decreased the size of the fighting manpower in order to return as many skilled workers to the factories as was possible.

It happened because the German aircraft industry lacked the experience to build a long-range bomber fleet quickly, and because Hitler was insistent on the very rapid creation of a numerically large force.

Deeply disturbed by the surge of militaristic nationalism in 1930s world politics, Chaplin found that he could not keep these issues out of his work: " How could I throw myself into feminine whimsy or think of romance or the problems of love when madness was being stirred up by a hideous grotesque, Adolf Hitler?

It was widely noted that Hitler wore the same toothbrush moustache as the Tramp, and it was this physical resemblance that formed the basis of Chaplin's story.

The plan attracted support from a wide coalition of parties, including the SPD and the post-war Bavarian Minister-President ( First Minister ) Wilhelm Hoegner but the legal appointment of Hitler as Reichskanzler in 1933 by Hindenburg and the hesitant Bavarian government under Heinrich Held ended all hopes for the idea.

As documented in the Hossbach Memorandum, Hitler had been dissatisfied with these two highest ranking military officials and regarded them as too hesitant towards the war preparations he demanded.

As a result of Britain and Poland having signed the Polish-British Common Defence Pact on August 25, and also being informed that Italy was hesitant in fulfilling its obligations regarding the Pact of Steel, Adolf Hitler postponed the opening of hostilities.

In 1943, Hitler decreed the Lex Krupp, authorizing the transfer of all Bertha ’ s shares to Alfried, giving him the name “ Krupp ” and dispossessing his siblings.

As a member of Röhm's paramilitary unit, Himmler was involved in the Beer Hall Putsch — an unsuccessful attempt by Hitler and the NSDAP to seize power in Munich.

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 the election results in Germany that September, Röhm received a telephone call from Hitler in which the latter said, " I need you ", thus provoking Röhm's return to Germany.

Hitler privately shared much of Röhm's animus toward the traditionalists in the army.

In exchange, Hitler offered to reduce the SA, suppress Röhm's ambitions, and guarantee the Reichswehr would be Germany's only military force.

Himmler, Heydrich and Göring used Röhm's published anti-Hitler rhetoric to support a claim that the SA was plotting to overthrow Hitler.

" In a speech on 13 July Hitler alluded to Röhm's homosexuality and explained the purge as chiefly defence against treason.

Lutze's participation in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934 was very important, as it was he who informed Adolf Hitler about Ernst Röhm's anti-regime activities.

Hitler ordered brutal reprisals that resulted in the execution of more than 4, 900 people.

Hitler ordered his arrest and execution.

Infuriated by Heydrich's death, Hitler ordered the arrest and execution of 10, 000 randomly selected Czechs.

The entire execution and multiple resuscitations was filmed for Hitler to view at his leisure.

In his memoirs, written shortly before his execution, Frank made the sensational claim that Hitler had commissioned him to investigate Hitler's family in 1930 after a " blackmail letter " had been received from Hitler's nephew, William Patrick Hitler, who allegedly threatened to reveal embarrassing facts about his uncle's ancestry.

Friedrich Fromm, a German officer involved in the July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler, was executed here in March 1945 for his part in the plot, even though Fromm betrayed those conspirators he knew and ordered their execution.

The 1996 television movie Witness Against Hitler starring James Wilby as Helmuth James von Moltke tells the story of the formation of the Kreisau Circle and the arrest, trial and execution of Moltke.

" Iron Cross " was canceled almost on the eve of execution because intelligence showed that Hitler had remained in Berlin.

Infuriated, Hitler ordered the arrest and execution of 10, 000 randomly selected Czechs, but, after consultations, he reduced his response.

Von Trott's involvement in the 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler led to his execution.

Donaldson's team located Priebke in 1994, and Donaldson interviewed him on a street in Bariloche, Argentina, about his role in the execution of 335 Italian civilians on the direct orders of Adolf Hitler in the caves outside Rome.

Thus Hitler backed off from Niemöller's planned execution in 1938.

* Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, who was named commander in chief of the German army by Hitler in 1938 and who was instrumental in the planning and execution of attacks on Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Yugoslavia, Greece, and the Soviet Union.

Goebbels was aware that his decades-long involvement with the Nazi Party and the Adolf Hitler regime would have led to his trial and execution by the Russians had he been captured alive.